Brooklyn is becoming a hotspot for urban agriculture, and one company is trying to change the distance our produce has to travel to end up on our plates. HannahKliger shows us how a rooftop and a green thumb can feed millions.
- It started as a single rooftop greenhouse in Brooklyn. Now, Gotham Greens is one of the largest greenhouse lettuce producers in North America, with soon-to-be 13 locations across nine states. of the food that we eat in New York City has to be imported into the city and has to travel really long distances. For example, lettuce like this typically comes from places like California that are 3,000 miles away," explains Chief Executive Officer Viraj Puri.
Grown completely hydroponically in renewably-powered greenhouses, the farms use significantly less water and land. Across the city in a unique classroom in the Claremont Village section of the Bronx, towers of herbs and veggies are lovingly tended by local students like 16-year-old Jill Bonilla.
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