Fifteen grows its own

We are excited to announce our involvement in a ground-breaking design research project with Central Saints Martins College of Art & Design, exploring how to grow food in urban environments.

We are the only restaurant taking part in the experiment titled MetaboliCity, named after a vision of a city that metabolizes its resources and waste.

Fifteen is one of six sites in London that is trialing the innovative scheme and its specially designed, site-specific “urban grow-kits”.

We are growing a range of salad leaves and herbs in two types of kit in the Trattoria, with the aim of actually serving our home-grown produce to our customers in the restaurant. We will be using hydroponic techniques and more traditional hand-watering as part of the experiment and hope to have our first crops ready by the summer.

A small group of green-fingered staff at Fifteen are involved in the project which is being run by Loop.ph, a London-based design and research studio, in conjunction with Central Saint Martins and funded by the Audi Design Foundation.

The project will be a feature at the London Design Festival in September. To find out more please visit www.londondesignfestival.com/news/metabolicity.