Soil-less sky farming: rooftop hydroponics on NYC restaurant

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Uploaded by on Jun 20, 2011

Chef John Mooney believes so strongly in local food that for his latest restaurant in Manhattan's West Village, most of his produce travels just 60 feet from the building's roof to his kitchen.

He's able to grow nearly two-thirds the vegetables for his restaurant- Bell, Book & Candle- because he doesn't rely on soil. Instead, Mooney and his partner Mick O'Sullivan installed 60 vertical tower hydroponic systems.

Original story here: http://faircompanies.com/videos/view/soil-less-sky-farming-rooftop-hydroponic...

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  • and winter time?

  • @rainerandglenda He hopes to grow 10 months of the year and to preserve food for those two coldest winter months.

  • Yes! i love it! Grow ur own! help the local economy. I love what yall are doing! where are you guys located? i would love to check out the restaraunt. One love

  • @decoYnR They're in NYC's West Village at 141 West 10th Street. bbandcnyc . com

  • Where can I buy the planters?

  • @AReptileMan They're not cheap. $500 a piece. They're called Tower Gardens and are made by the company Future Growing. Sold online: mytowergarden . com

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  • i love these videos. so inspiring

  • Chicago has restaurants with earthboxes growing on their roof.

    I love hydroponics, but I love aquaponics even more. It results in combining fish farming with vegetable farming.

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  • @rainerandglenda

    this is the simplified version of sky farms, there is a possiblility to go further, where the roots of the plants are just suspended in air and get moistened by a little bit of water mixed with nutrients

  • I LIVE IN THE NYC AREA-IM A GRADUYARE STUDENTFINISHING MY MASTERS IN SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY AND TO BE A CERTOFOED bEHAVIOR ANALYSIST-hOWEVR THOUGHT MY 3 YEARS, AND NY BEGGINING WITH HYDROPONICS-ALL TYPES GOES BACK TEN-12 YEARS NOW---i ENVISION A FUTURE WHERE SKYSCRAPERS ARE GROWING DIFFERENT PRODUCE AND FLOWERS ON EACH FLOOR-USING LED TECHNOLOGY-AND THE MOST WATER EFFICIENT HYDROPONIC APPLICATION-aND LESS CAN GO WRONG-ebb AND FLOW-I WANT TO OPEN A PRE-K THAT WAS HORTICULTURAL BASED-ITS BEEN MY DREAM

  • !!! HOLY SHIT !!!

  • What an amazing system!

  • Hydroponics is a kin to the topsy turvy tomato plant. The work involved doesn't justify the yield. Growing plants is easy folks stop complicating it.

  • @pahwraith I'm thinking he can add fish for food in his system still. If the nutrients are not toxic and the he finds a way to remove debris in the water pipes.

  • its good for fun and good for hobby, but i think its not economical for the restaurant, big investment, dialy expenditure, thunderstroms damages, repairs all together will be more than ,he buys stuff from the wholesale, they deliver at home also.

  • >using Dead Space to grow vegetables.

    >necromorphs

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