"We're bringing a organization model where meals is grown and sold suitable in the community."
. And this spring, Brooklyn Grange is set to open a 45,000-square-foot commercial rooftop farm at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Building will begin later this year and the farm is scheduled to open in 2013, when the firm predicts it will begin to generate over one million pounds of vegetables a year, which includes tomatoes, lettuces and herbs.
Lightfoot (who you can see speak at a TED conference here) also stated that Brightfarms is in talks with local supermarkets that could potentially commit to acquiring the generate.
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Vibrant Farms, a firm that builds greenhouses, has announced they will make a multi-acre farm on one hundred,000 square feet of rooftop space in Sunset Park.
Brooklyn will soon to be house to the world's biggest rooftop farm.
"Right here in New York, we never have acres and acres of unused land to develop fresh meals," Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz stated in a statement, according to The New York Instances, "but Brooklyn's got plenty of industrial buildings with unused roofs that are ideal for urban farming."
All of the generate will be grown hydroponically, meaning no soil will be employed as mineral nutrients are absorbed directly from the water in which the plants are grown.
"The USDA tells us that for every single $1 million of local foods sold, 13 jobs are supported, so we're hoping to take jobs that have gone to other parts of the country or to the globe and bring them back to Brooklyn," Lightfoot stated. "We want to market the Brooklyn economy by bringing greater make to New Yorkers."
"Brooklyn was an agricultural powerhouse in the 19th century, and it has now become a nearby food scene second to none," said Paul Lightfoot, the chief executive of Bright Farms, according to The Times. The enormous greenhouse will be atop Federal Creating #two, renamed Liberty View Industrial Plaza-- an eight-story 1.1 million-square-foot former Navy warehouse that the city's Financial Development Corporation acquired final year,
The greenhouse is an extension of an urban farming movement that's gained in reputation over the final several years, namely in Brooklyn, exactly where there are 224 community gardens, compared to just 150 in Manhattan
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