Showing posts with label farming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label farming. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Times Gets It


Bright, bright Melissa Feldman writes about Urban Ag. in the April 11 NY Times Mag.

Her piece Growth Spurt quotes BrightFarm's Benjamin Linsley,

“The rooftop business is not a passing trend but the beginning of a new approach to food production.”

Monday, April 19, 2010

60 kilowatt Green


Fast Company's May 2010 issue came in the mail and there is a nice sidebar showing a schematic of the Gotham Greens factory-roof farm complete with a 60 kilowatt solar array.

Highly-placed Brooklyn officials (actually a pal of my electrician) says this greenhouse farm and photovoltaic (PV) array will be on the roof of the Ice Cream Factory at 1205 Manhattan Ave Commercial Packaging Co. at 77 Commmercial St, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY.

60 kW peak power might take about 6,000 square feet (about two tennis courts or about 75' by 75') of PV cells on average.