Stanford Law student Rohit Kumar turned his whole yard into a food-producer to the tune of 5,000 pounds of food per year. Living in Los Angeles has probably helped climate-wise.
But New York City has urban farms too. Gotham Greens is a farm on a rooftop supplying New Yorkers and restaurants with fresh herbs and lettuce, grown without soil hydroponically. This rooftop produced nothing - and then co-founders Eric and Viraj started creating food and wealth with this resource and their idea. Now consumers have a source of nearby nutrition and jobs are created.
Brooklyn Grange Farm produces 40,000 pounds of produce per year on 2.5 acres of cultivated NY rooftops, using 1.2 million pounds of soil.
Here's their mission: "at our core, we are a farm, and growing nutritious, tasty food is our passion. Doing so in New York is our dream. We believe that this city can be more sustainable; that our air can be cooler and waterways can be cleaner. We believe that food should be fresh, not sitting on the back of a flatbed for two weeks. We believe that food should taste fresh. Because at the end of the day, it’s about sitting down with our farmily, admiring that sunset over the city skyline, snacking on a perfectly ripe, sweet tomato and remembering: this is what real food is."
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