World’s Largest Rooftop Farm Planned for Brooklyn Making New York the Model For Urban Agriculture ⇢

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BrightFarms is pushing ahead with very large scale an innovative urban food production, and has announced plans for the world’s largest rooftop farm in Brooklyn:

BrightFarms announces plans to build the world’s largest rooftop farm in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, making it a model for urban agriculture! For more info, click here.

  • 100,000 Square feet of available rooftop space
  • 1 million pounds of local produce (tomatoes, lettuces & herbs) the farm can grow
  • 5,000 New Yorkers’ total fresh vegetable consumption needs can be met by the farm
  • 25 full time jobs created
  • 1.8 million gallons of storm water the farm can prevent from going into local waterways

When you consider that amount of rooftop space available in cities you can imagine something on a massive scale. New York City has approximately 900,000 buildings. If only 10,000 were suitable for rooftop gardening at half the size of the Sunset Park project, we could see 500 million pounds of produce, enough to supply 25 million people’s produce.

2 April 2012 62 futuresagency
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