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Technology-Enabled Farming For City Dwellers - Alex Pate, Farm Manager in Brooklyn, NY

Technology-Enabled Farming For City Dwellers - Alex Pate, Farm Manager in Brooklyn, NY

Released Monday, 29th August 2022
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Technology-Enabled Farming For City Dwellers - Alex Pate, Farm Manager in Brooklyn, NY

Technology-Enabled Farming For City Dwellers - Alex Pate, Farm Manager in Brooklyn, NY

Technology-Enabled Farming For City Dwellers - Alex Pate, Farm Manager in Brooklyn, NY

Technology-Enabled Farming For City Dwellers - Alex Pate, Farm Manager in Brooklyn, NY

Monday, 29th August 2022
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A small company in Brooklyn New York called Square Roots looks to change the tide and take back the heart and soul of farming, by growing organic food in shipping containers, and by creating meaningful jobs in modern farming. Square Roots actively incorporates diversity, equity, and inclusion in as well as a starting base pay that would surprise anyone


PICTURE THIS: a tractor trailer, fitted out with all the necessary equipment and technology to become self-contained farms - which can be placed inside cities around the world to feed urban dwellers


Alex Pate is farm manager of Square Roots Brooklyn operation. He grew up outside Chicago, became a teacher. After becoming disenchanted with his purpose, he found urban agriculture to be a natural extension of an interest in the recently legalized cannabis industry.

For more on Square Roots:
https://www.squarerootsgrow.com/

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