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This week’s New Yorker magazine has a fascinating story about farming in urban areas without soil or natural light.  The Newark farm in the story, AeroFarms, built a 12-layer crop production building on the grounds of an old steel warehouse and produces a variety of greens that they sell in New York City and elsewhere in the region for cheaper prices than the greens you can buy that are produced in California.  You can read about it at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/09/high-rise-greens.

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