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The Arctic farmer growing vegetables in minus 30
Meet the man growing vegetables in the most northerly town on Earth. Longyearbyen, on the Arctic's Svalbard Islands, is a hostile natural environment for plants, with no daylight for three months each year. Residents rely on air freight for much of their produce, and Ben Vidmar wants to make it more sustainable.
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