(CBS) Been to the supermarket this weekend? These days you have another choice: Farmers markets have taken root in cities across the nation. Martha Teichner takes us on a tour in our Sunday Morning Cover Story guaranteed to make you "green" with envy…
As farmers markets go, it isn't impressive: One little stall in the lobby of an office building. It's not impressive, unless you consider where these vegetables were grown . . .
The roof.
"It's a 40,000 square foot rooftop farm, it's about an acre," said Ben Flanner of Brooklyn Grange. "And we're growing 50, 60, 70 different varieties of vegetables."
Flanner and four friends are running a commercial farm, seven stories off the ground, surrounded by a to-die-for view of the New York City skyline. The soil, a million pounds of it, had to be raised a sack at a time by crane.
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