America’s urban neighborhoods may be vibrant, teeming-with-life, cornucopias of activity, but all too often they are also food deserts.
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A quick search on the web seems to indicate that hydroponic farming is as good as or even superior to organic soil farming. And there’s a current debate over whether to allow hydroponic tomatoes to be classified as organic. This seems simple enough: logically, if only organic nutrient solutions are supplied to the hydroponically-grown tomato plants, then why not?
Today, Friday, February 7th, is the American Heart Association Go Red For Women Day. The staff at Green City Growers is 75% women, so we’re celebrating!
Since my first day at Green City Growers, back in May, I’ve taken away a lot more than I thought I would. Being an Environmental Science major concentrating in Geology and minoring in Mathematics and Physics, I don’t study anything outside the realms of science in school. This internship not only progressed my understanding of plant and soil science, it taught me the in and outs of how a business is run. Being a business development intern, a lot of my responsibilities include marketing, client outreach and sales; again, nothing I would learn or take a class on in school. Although I am excited to go back to classes in January at Northeastern, it has been an awesome change of pace.
You don't need to be a scientist to figure out that fresh food tastes better. There's just no comparison between the robust flavor of a hand-picked cherry tomato, still warm from the sun, and the bland taste of a tomato grabbed from the stark, fluorescent aisle of a grocery store.
