{"id":13527,"date":"2011-09-23T12:13:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T18:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/?p=13527"},"modified":"2011-09-23T12:13:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T18:13:24","slug":"hydroponic-farm-grocery-store-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/hydroponic-farm-grocery-store-roof\/","title":{"rendered":"Brightfarms: The Hydroponic Farm for the Grocery Store Roof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:<\/strong> Back in June, I came across start-up company Brightfarms, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundancechannel.com\/sunfiltered\/2011\/06\/hydroponic-farms-on-grocery-store-roofs-does-it-get-any-more-local\/\">wrote a post about them at SUNfiltered<\/a>. When I saw that Elizabeth Smyth at <a href=\"http:\/\/insteading.com\">Insteading<\/a> had covered the company this week, I remembered thinking that this was an ingenious concept&#8230; so I thought I&#8217;d share Elizabeth&#8217;s post (and Brightfarms&#8217; concept) with you here.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rpuArticle rpuJump-4 rpuRepost-d5bf45b757b6615670890c0c9768464b-top\" style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s.tt\/13jgT\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; background: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/i.curate.us\/img\/c810db930fa44d568a75c3ca97e67c74?\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can check out the rest of the post <a href=\"http:\/\/insteading.com\/2011\/09\/21\/brightfarms-shortening-the-food-chain\/\">over at Insteading<\/a>&#8230;<\/strong> feel free to come back here and let us know what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s note: Back in June, I came across start-up company Brightfarms, and wrote a post about them at SUNfiltered. 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