Urban Truck Farms Take Local Food to a New Level
Rachel Cernansky
I saw the truck as we entered the Old South Pearl Street farmer's market on Sunday, but what I thought was an awesome old truck selling greens out of the back was even better--it was growing them. Lined with dirt, the bed of the truck literally sprouts all kinds of greens, from lettuce to tomato plants to a variety of herbs. Not the first of its kind, the Denver Urban Truck Farm was inspired by a similar project in Brooklyn and is part of a whole fleet of truck farms scattered around the country. The truck aims to demonstrate that food is "not only easy to grow, but can thrive in the most unlikely of containers." The farm is built into a 1966 Ford F-250 pickup truck, and has about 40 square feet of growing space, which it maintains using organic....Read The Rest Of This Article
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