Growing Basil and Lettuce On Rooftops in NYC
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everyone and today I literally do mean up because we are talking about a |
| 0:06.6 | rooftop farm. This is Gotham Greens which is one of the most badass names I've heard |
| 0:12.0 | for an urban farm and a name I'm going to copy that somehow or |
| 0:15.2 | I'm going to name it after my favorite superhero whenever I have a rooftop farm, which would |
| 0:19.2 | probably be Daredevil Farms or like Hell's Kitchen Farms because I was obsessed with the |
| 0:24.0 | Daredevil comics as a kid. I think I actually tried to be blind so I could gain |
| 0:31.3 | extra sensory perception with my other senses. I don't know if you guys |
| 0:34.7 | know about daredevil but he is blind and then he gains extreme propioception |
| 0:39.5 | and all sorts of different superpowers. Anyways I'm getting a little nerdy and a little off topic. So again, I was out in New York and I went over to Gotham Greens in Gowanus and Brooklyn and it's on top of a whole foods. So you roll up to the whole foods |
| 0:53.6 | and you see these gigantic triangles |
| 0:56.8 | on top of the building and they're none other than |
| 0:59.3 | the greenhouse up there. |
| 1:00.6 | And it's absolutely fantastic. |
| 1:02.1 | You walk up to the top, the whole food |
| 1:03.9 | sort of has a little food quart up on the roof and you go through this door. |
| 1:07.7 | And there's this incredibly sophisticated hyper-local basil, leafy green and herb production facility up there and so I had |
| 1:17.1 | contacted them and I just wanted to come out and take a look because I think many |
| 1:20.3 | of you long-time listeners or readers or sort of followers of epic gardening |
| 1:23.7 | would know that hydroponics was my first love. |
| 1:26.7 | It's the thing that got me into gardening in the first place because just being such a science |
| 1:30.8 | he-minded individual that was the hook that got me into growing plants in general. |
| 1:36.1 | And now, of course, I've expanded and really found a love for soil gardening and market |
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