[CPEO-BIF] "'Smart' Bowery Farm transforms vacant former brownfield site in Bethlehem, " Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel]

“Smart” Bowery Farm transforms vacant former brownfield site in Bethlehem
Vertical agriculture saves energy and space in indoor operation

By Kathryn Finegan Clark
Bucks County Herald (PA)
June 2, 2022

No red barn, no fields to plow. It’s a farm but it looks like a giant warehouse. 

That’s because it’s Bowery Farm Bethlehem, a smart farm housed in a 156,000-square-foot structure where plants are grown indoors in vertical stacks using artificial light and a fraction of the water that traditional farming requires.

Every step of the process from seed to final packaging is plotted and monitored with a computer operating system. For the consumer this means no pesticides, no GMOs, no need to wash produce and fresher greens and herbs.

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Bowery Farming has transformed a nearly 9-acre plot in Lehigh Valley Industrial Park VII on Feather Way into sustainable vertical indoor farmland designed to serve 50 million people in a 200-mile radius. A brownfields area once devoted to burning coal ash is now producing leafy greens and herbs.

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For the entire article, see
https://buckscountyherald.com/stories/smart-bowery-farm-transforms-vacant-former-brownfield-site-in-bethlehem,17526

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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LSiegel at cpeo.org
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