We nurture and we nourish so that people and planet flourish
Farm Urban is on a mission to transform our cities, towns and organisations into greener, healthier, more inclusive places.
Farm Urban was born in 2013, aiming to find healthier and more sustainable solutions to the broken food system. We spent our early days developing and installing small scale urban farming systems across the city. We used these systems to engage communities and help people to grow fresh nutritious food locally.
Vertical farming offers a way to grow fresh produce locally, guaranteeing quality, consistency and availability all year round.
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The Farm Urban model embeds vertical farms into the fabric of society delivering huge Environmental and Social Impact, these include:
Hyper-Local sustainable superfood supplied to those who need it most – reducing carbon locally and improving long term health outcomes.
High-tech meaningful jobs for local people.
Innovative green infrastructure, increasing biodiversity in our cities.
Local & Global carbon reduction - by giving agricultural land back to nature we increase biodiversity and further reduce carbon globally.
Community embedded education programmes in primary and secondary schools as well as community organisations driving healthier behavioural change from the ground up.
Many people know us for our vertical farm – a first for the Liverpool City Region – which is located in the Baltic Triangle.
Discover Farm Urban
We work across communities, partnering with councils and local authorities, schools and colleges, private companies, public sector bodies and socially-trading organisations, to support your ESG and grow your impact.
Our People
Our learning, outreach and engagement programmes are designed to empower, up-skill and inspire healthy and sustainable behaviours fighting for people and the planet.
The Urban Farm Way
Nurture, nourish, flourish
“Farm Urban is a fantastic, pioneering organisation, which is doing incredible things in the city. We love getting our daily greens from our Edible Wall.”
Colin Forshaw, Regional Director at Bruntwood
Our People
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Dr. Paul Myers - Co-founder and Managing Director
After getting his PhD in epigenetics, exploring how environmental factors can affect our DNA and in turn our health and wellbeing, Paul met our co-founder Dr. Jens Thomas and shortly thereafter, Farm Urban was born.
Today Paul leads our business, building new stakeholder relationships, working with investors and helping us to grow our business and impact and share our story.
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Dr. Jens Thomas - Co-Founder and Technical Director
Jens has had an unconventional career path - an editorial traineeship at the New Scientist magazine after finishing a degree in chemistry, studies in computers, quantum chemistry, molecular graphics and supercomputing. He has travelled extensively, including long stints in Nepal and Patagonia and sailing around the world.
Jens improves the operations of the farm, looking for innovative ways to evolve how we grow using hydroponic technologies, with the aim of making the farm financially self-sufficient.
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Abigail Williams - Impact Lead
Abigail joined Farm Urban as part of her Master’s degree, evaluating the efficacy of the Future Food Challenge, our flagship secondary school programme. She has also worked as an advocate, developing recovery programmes for survivors of human trafficking and domestic abuse and wanted to return to research and focus on preventative and rehabilitative community initiatives to address societal needs.
Today, Abi has started her Ph.D and ensures that Farm Urban’s social aims are at the heart of all our activities.
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Alex Hannah - Greens for Good Lead
Alex Hannah is our Greens for Good lead at Farm Urban. His role focuses on community engagement, workshop delivery, customer relationships and business development. Before joining Farm Urban, Alex spent 21 years in the hospitality industry starting with 8 years with Living Ventures before heading up the resurgence of Alma De Cuba in 2008.
Alex moved on to open several of his own restaurants which included the Lucha Libre and Miyagi concepts. Alex is also responsible for the development of our Urban Oasis concept which we are currently working on.
The Farm Urban way
Nurture, nourish, flourish
Everything we do is designed for a better tomorrow. We support organisations to have a lasting impact and bring about systemic change – it is an integrated, holistic and long term approach.
We make it the easiest and most obvious choice.
We believe that doing the right thing shouldn’t be hard work – it’s our job to remove barriers and make it easy for people to make healthier and more sustainable food choices.
