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Farms could cover the city: Anastasia Cole Plakias and Cara Chard at TEDxLongIslandCity

2,096 views · Published 7 November 2013 · 16:54 · Indexed 1 October 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2013 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Brooklyn Grange is the world's largest rooftop farm, and City Growers is a program that uses the farm to teach children about agriculture and nature. "Why can't a farm exist in the city? Why can't the city be a city, but also farmland? And does a farm have to just be a farm? Why can't it be part of a hospital, a public housing project, and as our students so often ask, a school?"

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