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The Vertical Farm: Growing crops in the city, without soil or natural light

May 3, 2017

January 2, 2017 By: Ian Frazier No. 212 Rome Street, in Newark, New Jersey, used to be the address of Grammer, Dempsey & Hudson, a steel-supply company. It was like a lumberyard for steel, which it bought in bulk from distant mills and distributed in smaller amounts, mostly to customers within a hundred-mile radius of …

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Episode 65: High-Rise Lettuce Farms

January 13, 2017

January 13, 2017 On this Episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour, Ian Frazier finds the future of farming in an industrial building in Newark, New Jersey. Listen to the story of AeroFarms Chief Science Officer at www.wnyc.org.

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