In the world's first industrialised city, Vincent Walsh is hoping that Manchester will now become "the first biospheric city", in his flagship project transforming a disused printworks in a deprived area of Salford into a state-of-the-art urban farm and research centre.
Schools and families will be able to visit this old three-storey mill turned agricultural space once it opens on 5 July. By then, Walsh hopes the former industrial monument will be teeming with sustainable food production - an outdoor forest of fruit trees, plants growing on the roof, and an aquaponics technology system that cultivates fish and plant-life in a semibiotic environment.