Last week, we wrote about a project in London that sounds straight up apocalyptic: A massive underground farm inside a 60-year-old bunker, originally built to protect Londoners from Nazi bombs. Now, we have video—and it’s every bit as spooky as you’d think.
https://gizmodo.com/londons-newest-farm-is-an-abandoned-bomb-shelter-deep-1515310190
The entrepreneurs behind the project, Zero Carbon Food, uploaded a number of videos to their YouTube channel over the past few weeks. Their pitch gives us a glimpse inside the real, completed farm, cloaked in a magenta LED haze:
But what’s really cool? The earlier tour of the prototype farm, shot on a handheld camera as the cameraman descends from street level through a succession of rotting doors and dank chambers, towards an aura of red light where—against all odds—food is growing:
In the 1940s, this bunker protected thousands of Londoners. Seventy years later, it’s going to feed them. [YouTube]
