Company Brings Farming To Streets Of Newark
NEWARK, N.J. (CBSNewYork) -- A company in Newark is growing where you might not expect.
As WCBS 880's Levon Putney reported, on the other side of a secured door in a trash-filled alley in Newark...is a farm.
The farm house in an old building that used to be a night club features vertical racks over 20 feet long and 80 feet high.
"We're talking about how we can get as many levels of growing vertically in a one-story space," said Marc Oshima co-founder of AeroFarms.
And the company is expanding.
"We're actually building out. In the Iron Mountain section will be the world's largest indoor vertical farm. There we'll have 12 levels of growing," Oshima said.
"Delivering it right to the local distributors," said CEO David Rosenberg.
Rosenberg said AeroFarms' system recycles the water, uses less than 50 percent of fertilizers that regular farms use "and zero pesticides and herbicides."
Rosenberg said the whole point is "fresh product" at the same price, Putney reported.