Historic ventures
Low Carbon Farming
Developer of world first greenhouses with heat pumps using waste heat from water treatment plants.
The Oasthouse team founded Low Carbon Farming in 2016 to develop a unique series of world first greenhouses in the UK. After several years of development work the Company raised £120m from Greencoat Capital.
In January 2021 the first 1 million plants went into our 70 acres of high-tech greenhouses. The greenhouses mark a world first for decarbonisation- capturing waste heat from a waste water treatment works to provide 90% of the heat the greenhouses require. The greenhouses represent a blueprint for low carbon agriculture, but moreover an example of how we can better utilise the resources we find around us.