Title: A Man’s Mission to Farm in the Arctic

Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2434/Untitled.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='A Mans Mission to Farm in the Arctic' data-article-id='2981'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='7292'>Benjamin Vidmar lives and works in one of the most northern towns in the world.</span> <span data-start-time='7292' data-end-time='13438'>He is trying to grow food for the town of about 2,000 people.</span> <span data-start-time='13438' data-end-time='23417'>But that is difficult when temperatures are often below freezing and it stays dark for months in the winter.</span> <span data-start-time='23417' data-end-time='35708'>Vidmar keeps a greenhouse where he grows vegetables during the short summer when there is 24 hours of sunlight each day.</span> <span data-start-time='35708' data-end-time='43083'>During the winter, temperatures drop to minus 30 degrees Celsius.</span> <span data-start-time='43083' data-end-time='52896'>But Vidmar still grows what he calls microgreens and raises small birds called quail.</span> <span data-start-time='52896' data-end-time='59792'>He is the only person who grows any food in the town of Longyearbyen.</span> <span data-start-time='59792' data-end-time='69021'>The town is only 1,000 kilometers from the North Pole in the Svalbard Archipelago.</span> <span data-start-time='69021' data-end-time='72854'>It once was known for coal mining.</span> <span data-start-time='72854' data-end-time='78813'>Vidmar spoke to the Thomson Reuters Foundation recently.</span> <span data-start-time='78813' data-end-time='86479'>He said growing food may seem like a “mission impossible” but it is necessary.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2434/3B5DDC56-86F0-42F1-A89E-BC7930B40D7E_w1023_r1_s.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=10431 data-hint-location='78813' style='display:none;'><div class='question' 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Benjamin Vidmar lives and works in one of the most northern towns in the world. He is trying to grow food for the town of about 2,000 people. But that is difficult when temperatures are often below freezing and it stays dark for months in the winter. Vidmar keeps a greenhouse where he grows vegetables during the short summer when there is 24 hours of sunlight each day. During the winter, temperatures drop to minus 30 degrees Celsius. But Vidmar still grows what he calls microgreens and raises small birds called quail. He is the only person who grows any food in the town of Longyearbyen. The town is only 1,000 kilometers from the North Pole in the Svalbard Archipelago. It once was known for coal mining. Vidmar spoke to the Thomson Reuters Foundation recently. He said growing food may seem like a “mission impossible” but it is necessary.

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