The Biggest Restaurant Rooftop Garden Ever?

Nightline had a mind-blowing segment on Bell Book & Candle, a soon-to-open New York City restaurant that is growing its own produce hydroponically on the roof. This is not some token "I have a few raised beds" type thing, but a super-ambitious full-scale farm. Chef-owner John Mooney hopes to grow nearly all of what he uses in the restaurant in these water-only, no soil, freestanding plastic towers. He's growing lettuces, fresh chickpeas, eggplant, squash, strawberries, and more for ten months out of the year; he'll get the other two months of the year's produce from farmers' markets. Check this video out: so many implications for not just restaurants, but apartment buildings and offices.

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  • How cool! More people are demanding wholesome food, not only for their home kitchens, but also from their restaurants. I welcome the trend.

    Now that you have fresh ingredients, learn to cook and YOU have power over the food you eat

    Chef Todd Mohr
    WebCookingClasses.com

  • Terrific project. John Mooney is to be commended!

  • So cool!

  • It's called Hydroponics. But 10 months production without a greenhouse in NYC? wow.