Vertical Gardening Benefits Schools and Cooks
The New Yorker published an exciting article about vertical farming efforts on the east coast. THE VERTICAL FARM Growing crops in the city, without soil or natural light. By Ian Frazier Ingrid Williams, AeroFarms’ director of human resources, lives in Orange New Jersey but knows Newark well. She has degrees in labor studies and sociology from Rutgers. Williams told me. “ There’s an AeroFarms mini-farm growing salad greens in the cafeteria of my daughter’s school, Philip’s Academy Charter School, on Central Avenue. I volunteer there all the time as part of parents’ stewardship, and I know the kids love growing their own lettuce for the salad bar.” We need more Ed Harwoods in the US with messianic enthusiasm. "The mini-farm’s inventor, Ed Harwood , of Ithaca, New York, sold it to the school in 2010. Harwood is a sixty-six-year-old man of medium stature who speaks with the kind of rural accent that sometimes drops the last lette...