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Robots Take Vertical Farming to New Heights
Braddock, Pa., is where Andrew Carnegie first mass-produced steel. The city, now one-tenth its former size, is home to a new kind of industry: robotic farms that grow greens inside buildings.
June 28, 2021 •
Greens leave the grow room at robot farm Fifth Season, ready for harvest.
(Fifth Season)A decades-long decline of industry in Braddock has left the western Pennsylvania town in ruins. Ten miles upriver from Pittsburgh in the Mon (Monongahela) Valley, most of the city’s factories, businesses and homes were abandoned long ago and leveled. Among the ruins, a sprawling steel mill, built by Andrew Carnegie in 1874, is still producing slabs of steel, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It’s stained blue walls and maze of giant, rust-colored pipes and vents stand in contrast to the brand-new, block-long, gleaming white structure directly across the street. The mill’s neighbor is Fifth Season, a vertical farm growing greens indoo
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Ken Shackelford has been bringing bus tour groups from Virginia to Lancaster County for more than 40 years.Â
His two-night trips are highlighted by a show at Sight & Sound and include shopping at Kitchen Kettle Village and meals at restaurants such as Shady Maple Smorgasbord or Millerâs Smorgasbord.Â
âLancaster County has always been an easy trip to get, because everyone always likes coming to Lancaster,â said Shackelford, 76, a retired truck driver who lives near Newport News, Virginia.Â
But none of Shackelfordâs trips happened last year, and they are only now starting to resume. A trip scheduled for this past April was pushed back to mid-May, then came up with only 39 people. One for mid-June will also only have 39 people, reflecting reluctance on the part of his senior-citizen travelers. Normally, he runs 50 to a bus and has a waiting list.
Otherwise, four blocks may not be considered much of a gain.
But the downtown move from a former corner cigar shop at Cypress and North Second streets to a renovated former business site at Mesquite and North Second streets is a story with lots of mileage. The new location provides double the space, offers greater visibility to the community, saved a deteriorating building from further disrepair and remains really close to good coffee.
On Sunday, The Well Church, started by Austin Lawrence and others in 2014, will have its first in-person services at its new site at 153 Mesquite. It s south of the Front Porch, a coffee house, and north of Frontier Texas!