A Farm Grows in Brooklyn

The Passion Economy by Sony Music

Sep 23, 202045:58Business

Spread across three roofs in Brooklyn and Queens, New York, is the world's largest soil rooftop farm. It's called Brooklyn Grange, and is run by Gwen Schantz, Anastasia Cole Plakias, and Ben Flanner, who learned how to t...

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