31 July 2011

Urban Farms ~ WSJ Spotlights NYC Agriculture...

Inside Urban Green spots WSJ on the Big Apple's farms and adds...
"Brooklyn Grange, BrightFarms and Gotham Greens are featured in this Wall Street Journal report. New York City gets all kinds of media publicity for these commercial urban agriculture projects. The iconic New York skyline is a media magnet. The paradox is that our consumer horticulture education is from the dark ages. There is no institution in the city that teaches about modern methods of personal food production such as portable micro gardens, sub-irrigated planters (SIPs) simplified hydroponics and aquaponics. Even though we have two of the most historic botanic gardens in the U.S. (New York Botanical Garden and Brooklyn Botanic Garden), there is not one public demonstration garden that features modernity."

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