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[WATCH] Here's How a Local Vertical Farming Company Grows 80,000 Pounds of Produce Per Week

2022-05-05T16:00:00-04:00

Bowery Farming is a network of vertical farms based in NYC. Here, innovations in light, water, and other growing technologies enable the multi-level operation to use 95 percent less water, zero pesticides, and to grow produce optimized for flavor versus bulk or insect resistance.

Check out Bowery Farming for more info on the vertical farm.

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[WATCH] Here's How a NYC Vertical Farming Company Grows 80,000 Pounds of Produce Per Week

2021-02-22T12:00:00-05:00

Bowery Farming is a network of vertical farms based in NYC. Here, innovations in light, water, and other growing technologies enable the multi-level operation to use 95 percent less water, zero pesticides, and to grow produce optimized for flavor versus bulk or insect resistance.

Check out Bowery Farming for more info on the vertical farm.

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[WATCH] How Smallhold Farms Cultivates Rare Mushrooms for New York City Restaurants

2020-11-24T16:00:00-05:00

Smallhold is a macrofarm in Brooklyn that has created artificial environments for growing rare and unique mushrooms for local restaurants and grocers. Their goal is to open people’s minds to using mushrooms in more cooking, while creating sustainable farms in multiple cities nationwide.

Check out Smallhold Farms for more info.

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[VIDEO] New York Botanical Garden Gives You a Virtual Edible Academy Tour

2020-08-24T12:00:00-04:00

Take a virtual trip through our Edible Academy—now well into the summer harvest. While the Edible Academy’s vegetable garden remains closed to visitors, each day its staff members are still harvesting heaps of fresh heirloom tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, garlic, and more for distribution to Bronx emergency food providers and Community Farm Hub member gardens.

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[WATCH] "Chef in the Garden'' Teaches Local Children How to Cook Healthy Food in The Bronx

2019-07-15T11:00:00-04:00

Eyewitness News got a firsthand look at a free summertime series in the Bronx designed to teach kids and the community about healthy eating.

Check out the accompanying article to learn more about the 'Chef in the Garden' program or Garden of Eden park in The Bronx.

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[VIDEO] This Bronx-Born Hot Sauce Company Gives Back to Local Urban Farmers

2019-06-05T14:00:00-04:00

Small Axe Peppers is a Bronx-born hot sauce company which has an interesting business model that helps support local urban farms and community gardens throughout New York City and other urban areas. The company will give pepper plants and resources to these gardens, then commit to buy back 100% of the yield when it comes time to harvest. These hot sauces then get turned into the "Bronx Hot Sauce" and others like it. Check out this recent video from our friends at ABC 7 to learn more.

Small Axe Peppers empowers urban farmers by providing free pepper seedlings - guaranteeing these small farmers a profit.

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[VIDEO] This 1500 Square Foot Vertical Farm Lives in the Basement of a Tribeca Office Building

2019-04-19T11:00:00-04:00

FarmOne is a 1,500 square foot, indoor, vertical-farm that uses hydroponics and intelligent technology to grow over 500 different types of plants, herbs, and produce for chefs in New York City. It is the only indoor hydroponic farm, and even more surprising is that they are located in the basement of a Tribeca office building. In this video from Now This, hear Founder/CEO Rob Laing talk about how and why they grow in Lower Manhattan.

This 1,500 sq. ft vertical farm grows rare, edible plants right in the heart of New York City. With a hydroponic system like this, the farmers are able to use 90% less water than a traditional farm.

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[VIDEO] This South Bronx School Program is Teaching Farming to Young Students

2019-02-28T17:00:00-05:00

Elementary School P.S. 55 Benjamin Franklin in the South Bronx has an innovative program that is teaching urban farming to kids 5 days a week. Educator Stephen Ritz helps the class grow their own vegetables and serves them as lunch, as well as distributing the extras home to families. Learn more about Mr. Ritz and the program in this short inspirational video from filmmaker Aaron Kodz.

Globally acclaimed teacher Stephen Ritz shows how in one of the nation’s poorest communities, his students thrive in school and in life by growing, cooking, eating, and sharing the bounty of their green classroom. More than 50,000 pounds of vegetables later, he has figured out how to bring the magic of gardening into the heart of the school day for students of all ages.

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[WATCH] The Bronx's DeWitt Clinton High School Students Grow 25,000 Pounds of Produce

2018-08-21T16:30:00-04:00

The talented kids at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Jerome Park neighborhood of The Bronx have recently grew over 25,000 pounds of fresh produce in the school's dedicated 1,300 square foot hydroponic farming lab which uses only water and no soil. Learn more about it in this report from Pix11.

“Our students here at DeWitt Clinton High School have built a hydroponic farm. These plants are benefiting from recirculating water, which saves 90 percent of the water that you would use in traditional soil-based agriculture, and as a result also we’re able to use all of the vertical space in the room to grow,” said Katherine Soll, CEO and director of Teens for Food Justice. Inside a former science lab, students are growing 25,000 pounds of produce, which feeds 2,200 students daily.

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[WATCH] This 1500 Square Foot Vertical Farm Lives in the Basement of a Tribeca Office Building

2017-12-26T13:30:00-05:00

This 1,500 sq. ft vertical farm grows rare, edible plants right in the heart of New York City. With a hydroponic system like this, the farmers are able to use 90% less water than a traditional farm.

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