Yesterday we got to take a tour of Gotham Greens, the country's first commercial urban rooftop greenhouse.
It's an impressive, 15,000 square-foot facility atop a two-story warehouse in Greenpoint, Brooklyn that aims to grow 100 tons of produce a year.
The state-of-the-art greenhouse uses a hydroponic system, meaning there's no soil involved.
Gotham Greens harvested the first of its veggies in May and they're already selling out at upscale Manhattan grocers like Whole Foods and Mario Batali's Eataly, co-founder Viraj Puri told us. And the company will soon start selling directly to chefs at local restaurants.
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