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The high-rise of City-dwellers are embracing their space and getting closer to the elements with the concept of vertical farming. Boyd Farrow discovers how rooftop veg may be just an elevator ride away
W hile New York’s High Line – a shard of greenery slicing through the metropolis – has captured the imagination, some people believe that within the next decade visitors to New York will barely bat an eyelid at vegetables being grown – and maybe even livestock being reared – high above the glass and steel canyons of Manhattan. New York is at the vanguard of vertical farming, a global revolution that its advocates claim will soon change the way that city dwellers get their food. The theory is that instead of trucking food into cities from farms, at a massive environmental cost, it can be grown in huge greenhouses, hundreds of metres above the city streets. The last few years have seen a gold-rush by companies to bag rights to any serviceable plots. There are already hydroponic (plants grown in water) greenhouses on rooftops in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, producing basil, lettuce and bok choy for retailers such as Left and far left: Brooklyn Grange grows tomatoes, spring onions and squash at its 6,000m2 roof farm at the old Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York. Below left: Rooftop produce on sale. Below: Vegetables PA fl ourish up on the roof away from pollution EYEVINE; Whole Foods and FreshDirect. One rooftop farming pioneer, Brooklyn Grange, has a 6,000m² roof farm at the Brooklyn Navy Yard that grows tomatoes, spring onions and squashes, and a one-acre rooftop in Long Island, Queens. Another, BrightFarms, is creating a hydroponic greenhouse on a roof in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, which chief executive Paul Lightfoot claims will grow more than half a million kilogrammes of produce a year, including tomatoes, lettuce and herbs. Its aim is to “grow enough crops to meet the fresh vegetable consumption needs of up to 5,000 New Yorkers, to create jobs, and to prevent as much as 6.8 million litres of storm water from going into local waterways.” While the emphasis is on the local, the principle of urban gardening is global. Similar schemes proliferate in other United States cities such as Milwaukee and Chicago and the first commercial-scale vertical farm recently opened in Singapore. March <strong>2013</strong> 53
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