The Midori Farm project is the result of a collaboration between Sony Computer Science Laboratories - Paris and the Toits Vivants association.

It is an experimental urban farm where vegetables are grown on 80 m² following the ancient techniques of 19th-century Parisian market gardeners, also known as the "French Method". Unique research work will be carried out here, combining food production and the sale of vegetable baskets with open, collaborative academic research. New technological tools will be tested, such as robotics and artificial intelligence, to make these old methods more profitable and the work less physical. For example, camera systems will be developed to monitor a complex crop organization, with dense counter-planting and closely spaced sowing-harvesting cycles, optimizing the planning of daily sowing, transplanting and harvesting tasks. Robots will also be developed to assist market gardeners with tedious tasks such as weeding, sowing and transplanting.

The Midori Farm will be a place for designing future diversified organic micro-farms in urban and peri-urban areas.

Midori Farm will also be an ideal place to learn about the French Method and new technologies. The various skill networks - farmers, scientists, engineers... - will meet on the roof terrace of the Bourdelle building. The promoters of the project are keen to demonstrate that new, meaningful professions, concerned with a sustainable future, are possible.

The greenhouse has a surface area of 43 m².

The dimensions of the agricultural greenhouse are inherited from the dimensions of the re-used steel windows:

- Length 10.1 m ;

- Width 4.3 m ;

- Height 3.4 m (3 m under the roof structure).

- Sliding door opening width: 1.9 m