No room to garden? In New York City, farmers are looking skyward to grow fruits and veggies, turning rooftops into gardens that help feed the Big Apple's residents.
Brooklyn Grange, an organic farming business, is using a 40,000-square-foot rooftop (nearly an acre) in Queens to grow hundreds of thousands of plants. Its website says tomatoes are among its biggest crops but it also grows salad greens, herbs, carrots, fennel, beets, radishes and beans. It farms nine months of the year, using cover crops like rye, buckwheat, vetch and clover in the winter.
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