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divorce growing a crop from the land. i m matt leoda, and we grow fresh produce right in your neighborhood. as our population increases, we need greater and greater amounts of food source. we re having to do worse and worse things to our land to do that. by doing this, we re able to take land ready available in urban areas but that is traditionally not useful for farming, and we can make use of that. these are shipping containers that were previously used for importing and exporting goods in the united states. what we do is we recycle them into an optimal growing environment for a particular fresh produce crop. we plant seeds in little inert growing medium, and the seed then is irrigated on a regular basis. when you look at the amount of energy that you use to grow a crop, you have to look at all the energy from getting from seed ultimately to the end
importing/exports goods in the united states, and what we do is to recycle them into an optimal growing environment for a particular fresh produce crop. we plant seeds in little inert growing medium, and the seed then is irrigated on a regular e basis. when you look at the energy that is used to grow a crop, you have to look at all of the energy from getting from seed ultimately to the end product in the consumer s hand. so when you look at the annual yield that one of these containers produces, which takes up 320 square feet, we produce about the equivalent of an acre and a half of conventional farm. distributor comes three times a week to pick up our products. the vast majority of the product goes to restaurants here in the atlanta area. we probably use 10 and 15 pounds of lettuce a week here at the restaurant.