A Suffolk church is tackling food insecurity with an indoor aeroponic farm that grows fresh vegetables without soil and gives them away for free.
Greater Works Community Outreach Ministries operates the “Garden of Eat’n,” a vertical indoor farm that uses a growing method called aeroponics. Twenty gallons of water and nutrients sit at the base of each tower, flowing upward and directly onto the roots of the plants.
Valerie Baker, a minister and first lady at Greater Works Community Outreach Ministries, described how the system works…