TEDxLongIslandCity: Brooklyn Grange and City Growers

In the first of our videos, Anastasia Cole Plakias of Brooklyn Grange and Cara Chard of educational partner City Growers talk about building and running a rooftop farm.

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The TEDx evening started with a visit to the farm. (Photo: Jennifer Davis) — The TEDx evening downstairs started with a visit to the farm upstairs. (Photo: Jennifer Davis)

As part of the TEDxCity2.0 events around the world, City Atlas and the sustainable coffee bar COFFEED held an evening of talks in Long Island City, where COFFEED shares the same renovated industrial building as the rooftop farm enterprise Brooklyn Grange.

In the first of our videos, Anastasia Cole Plakias of Brooklyn Grange and Cara Chard of educational partner City Growers talk about building and running a rooftop farm and how it can give urban kids hands-on learning about agriculture and nature.

Coming next in our City Atlas TEDx talks: NYC Chief Service Officer Diahann Billings-Burford talks about NYC Service and NYC°CoolRoofs, and Eric Sanderson introduces his new project Mannahatta 2409. See behind the scenes here: