NYC AgTech Week

Experience a tour of one of NYC's most productive urban farms and urban greenhouses! HarlemGrown feeds local residents and teaches children and youth about sustainability and food access. The tour will involve a soil-based lot as well as a 1,000 af hydroponic on-ground greenhouse. 

Phytopods are on display at HarlemGrown so this tour means you get to see both the urban farm and a demo of Phytopods: No room for tomatoes?  Phytopods offer the sameplanting surface area on a much smaller footprint. A Phytopod-3 offers 15 square feet of planting area-- that's a decent sized plot but it occupies only 4 square feet of your balcony, patio or terrace.  Why dig up your front lawn? A Phytopod has a number exciting advantages though: it's easier to protect, you can move it around on wheels and watering it is easy and can be automated. 
 

Sky Vegetables owns and operates an 8,000sf+ rooftop hydroponic greenhouse in the South Bronx. Learn about the opportunities and challenges of growing fresh, pesticide-free produce in New York City. 

Beyond its value as an example of premier urban greenhouse, Sky Vegetables is also a prime example of Building-Integrated Agriculture as it is placed on top of an affordable housing building with which it shares certain systems integration.

This tour will be conducted by Blue Planet Consulting who currently manage the farm.  

East Williamsburg is a rapidly developing urban agriculture neighborhood in New York City. 

During this session, you will experience four back to back tours. You will be assigned to a group of 10 (group A, group B, group C, group D) before the event and groups will rotate between locations, walking by foot from venue to venue (15 mins longest walk). 

Tours include:

• Blue Planet Consulting (demo of "Plus" hydroponic system) - BONUS demo of Flux!
• Feedback Farms (soil-based)
• Verticulture (aquaponics, vertical indoor)
• Edenworks (aquaponics, vertical greenhouse) 

Group A: Start at Blue Planet Consulting - 164 Meserole St, Brooklyn, NY 11206
Group B: Start at Feedback Farms - 89 Porter Ave, Brooklyn
Group C: Start at Verticulture - 630 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn
Group D: Start at Edenworks - 236 Johnson Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206

Experience hands on volunteering at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal. This "living roof" offers a great example of urban agriculture and it has a fantastic view of the city too!