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...
Farm Visit: Resilient farming with Allan Gandelman at Main Street Farms in Cortland NY
Since 2012, Main Street Farms and GreenTree Garden Supply have been growing together. Allan and Bob Cat, the co-owners of Main Street Farms, were some of our first customers when we started making soil at GreenTree. They’ve been using our soil in their greenhouses since then: many of their vegetables start in GreenTree soil before transplanting into the field. We recently got the chance to spend an afternoon talking with...