Farm Visit: Rooftop farming with Ben Flanner at Brooklyn Grange, Brooklyn NY
Brooklyn Grange is the world's largest rooftop farm, with 2.5 total acres being cultivated across two separate sites in Brooklyn and Queens. Ben Flanner, one of Brooklyn Grange's co-founders, left a career in the corporate world to pursue farming. Ben and his partners are now pioneering new methods for growing produce on rooftops. Brooklyn Grange has been using GreenTree soil to start their seedlings and transplants in their greenhouse since November 2015; almost all transplants on...
GreenTree Farmer Profile: Nook & Cranny
GreenTree's farm customers are one-of-a-kind in many ways, growing different plant varieties, using varying growing practices and dealing with a range of topography. We work to support all of our agricultural customers, catering to their needs and eliminating the time consuming process of making soil themselves. Visiting with GreenTree’s farmers this season helped us learn how we can continue to be a great partner, while also hearing the unique stories that accompany every farm.
Bob Tuori, a chemistry teacher at Ithaca High School, spends his spare time planting in every nook and cranny of his 3-acre farm. Bob always wanted to be a...