Up On The Roof

Brandon Hoy, Anastasia Cole, Gwen Schantz, Chris Parachini and Ben Flanner had an idea that they could bring agriculture back to New York City, where farms once flourished in the burroughs of Brooklyn & Queens. Calling themselves Brooklyn Grange, their goal was to grow vegetables in the city, sell them to local people and businesses and to improve access to very good food.

But since land was so pricey, they decided they had to go vertical and put their experimental farm on a rooftop.



By summer solstice everything was ready and their crops were in... On an office building roof in Queens.

Audio Embed: PRI's Living On Earth 6/26/10, Reporter: Stephanie Hughes.