We do everything from providing hydroponic urban farm equipment to running the farm for you.
Farm Amenity®
Waterline Square
Located on the Hudson River waterfront in Manhattan NY, Waterline Square has the first indoor Farm Amenity™ located in their “Waterline Club” installed and operated by Green Food Solutions. Our Farm Amenity™ is located in the basement and grows food all year round. It sets a precedent for promoting a healthy lifestyle for building residents and compliments adjacent amenities. In fact it is one of the most successful and frequently visited along side the gym. Residents are engaged with an array of agriculturally based workshops, including pickling, mushroom inoculation, and pumpkin carving. Residents benefit from weekly harvest of fresh veggies and herbs just an elevator’s ride away.
401 Blvd Collection
401 Blvd is a sophisticated LEED Silver mixed-use building located on the Jersey City waterfront, featuring the first Farm Amenity™ in a retail storefront. This innovative space has been repurposed into a farm, providing freshly harvested fruits and vegetables to the building's tenants on a weekly basis. With a Farm Amenity™, tenants have the opportunity to pick up a pre-curated selection of greens and herbs, and even have a say in what is grown on the farm. This unique amenity not only fulfills the developer's Sustainable Development Goals but also sets a precedent for sustainability with compostable packaging and community engagement through the donation of surplus produce to local food pantries.
Haus 25 - First seed planted Nov’ 23!
Haus 25 is home to the largest indoor vertical Farm Amenity with 30 vertical towers growing food for building residents. Haus 25 invites your to live your dream life and a sustainable life in their 57 story mixed-used LEED certified amenity building in Jersey City. Green Food Solutions in partnership with our vendors provided the free planning and design, vertical growing systems, propagation, automated irrigation lines and systems, plus installation. Residents have access to free grown produce on a weekly basis!
Denizen
The Denizen, one of the coolest places to live in Brooklyn, has the first rooftop Farm Amenity™ sold, installed and operated by Green Food Solutions. We grow over 50 varieties of vegetables and fruits using 79 Towers and deliver the food directly to building residents and teach them how to grow their own. In addition to getting access to some of the freshest, sustainably grown produce in New York City, residence have taken part in a variety of educational agriculture and food related workshops since 2018
Coming Soon: Liberty Towers
Brand new Farm Amenity coming to Jersey City soon!
Garden Amenity®
&Co
&Co is a contemporary co-working space, located in the hip Grove Street neighborhood of Jersey City, and is home to a Garden Amenity® on the community terrace sold, installed and serviced by Green Food Solutions. The spacious terrace features a hydroponic garden that produces nutrient-dense food at half the price of other locally grown hydroponic grocery store brands, providing affordable access to fresh, nutritious food grown with zero carbon emissions associated with the transportation of food. The developer is unique and community-oriented, they are truly stars in their field. The surplus food is used for weekly community events held at the co-working space, and herbs are grown to provide refreshing herb-infused water for members.
Veris Residential
Green Food Solutions provides our Garden Amenity® service to Veris Residential corporate office locations in both Jersey City and Boston. Fresh, healthy food is grown right in the lunch and common areas using indoor vertical gardens. The produce is harvested and individually packaged on a monthly basis, providing convenient and nutritious options for staff to enjoy during lunchtime or take home. Veris residential is launching Green Food Solutions’ Farm Amenities® in multiple developments and buildings inside of their commitment to build LEED certified buildings and provide sustainability-conscious people a choice of places to live.
Bake Shop
The self-proclaimed best cupcake and chocolate cake in the U.S. housed one of Green Food Solutions tower systems. Bake Shop is located on Flushing Avenue in Brooklyn, has a commitment to sustainability, supporting local businesses and has been gained attention within the local community and amongst celebrities, such as queer rapper Princess Nokia and actress Katie Holmes. Although Bake Shop is best known for its decadent desserts, they also have a savory menu with a variety of organic sandwiches, bagels, and more.
Training
Wally Farms
Wally Farms is an incubator for innovative and sustainable farming practices, fostering a community of farmers who use cutting-edge technology to develop regenerative agricultural methods. Green Food Solutions is proud to support these efforts by offering our Agricultural Operations and System Maintenance training to the growers managing the indoor container farm at Wally Farms. We also provided support in the installation of various hydroponic vertical systems. The container farm at Wally Farms is capable of growing a wide range of produce, including leafy greens, herbs, peppers, and tomatoes. With the help of Green Food Solutions, Wally Farms is able to provide delicious, nutritious, and sustainably grown produce to the Hudson and Taghkanic community in upstate New York.
YM&YWHA x Growing Peace
In collaboration with Growing Peace, Green Food Solutions installed a 7 Tower vertical garden at the YM & YWHA. Local community students are actively involved in cultivating food for the neighboring Wien House residential building, a 100-unit facility catering to low-income elderly and mobility-impaired individuals. Green Food Solutions not only supplied the vertical garden but also conducted a comprehensive train-the-trainer program in our Agricultural Operations and System Maintenance to equip the staff with the necessary skills for effective garden management.
Mountain Roots Food Project
In Gunnison CO, within a valley, lives a vibrant mountain community and an extraordinary organization that is cultivating personal and social change through sustainable agriculture.
Green Food Solutiosn provided their comprehensive Freight Farms Agricultural Operations and Systems Maintenance Training to next generation farmers, both experienced and newcomers. We fully set up, cleaned, sanitized , set up a strong crop schedule, starting planting and got them growing! This farm operation will keep the season going for local CSA members and keep fresh ingredients available to local chefs all year round.
Ladies of Hope Ministries x Growing Peace
The Hope House NYC is an initiative of the Ladies of Hope Ministries. They empower women by providing a safe housing space, a supportive community of women, mentorship and guidance for formally incarcerated women to successfully re-enter life after prison. Green Food solutions in partnership with Growing Peace, sold and installed a 6 tower indoor garden, provided our comprehensive Agricultural Operations and Systems Maintenance training. Additional we provide ongoing virtual support through our supplemental training services only available to customers who take the comprehensive training.
Obodo Farms
Obodo Farms is home to Chicago’s first rooftop aeroponic commercial farm and grows a wide variety of fresh fruits and vegetables for Carribean and African restaurants in the Rogers park neighborhood. They grow over 500 Scotch Bonnet and Chocolate habanero pepper plants. Green Food Solutions empowered Obodo Farm’s mission of forging a local and diversified food system by providing the design, virtual installation support during the pandemic, and our comprehensive training, including best practices for cultivating and managing the fruiting crops the client planned to grow. The client incorporated planting, system maintenance, and integrative pest management practices recommended by Green Food Solutions to grow a successful harvest in the first year of growing!
Greentopia Japan
Greentopia perfectly situated in the city of Tokyo, Japan, where millennia-old traditions meet futuristic technology, purchased the first Tower Farm in the country! Green Food Solutions partnered with Greentopia to deliver the towers, provide virtual installation instructions as well as our Agricultural Operations and System Maintenance training.
St. Peter’s University
Green Food Solutions is proud to team up with Dr. Brandy Kluthe at St. Peter’s University to provide the planning, installation, and training for university students to install the university’s first hydroponic lab and grow room, affectionately called Cura Farms. In addition to providing hands on educational resources for biology and plant science students, it will also provide invaluable workforce development and training opportunities to students as well as exchange students interested in entering the Controlled Environment Agriculture industry.
Gaia Nomaya is a community gathering center located on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, NY. Gaia Nomaya seeks to create a sustainable eco-culture center for artists, healers, thought-leaders and ecobrands. Green Food Solutions towers have been implemented at an experimental stage into the facility to promote sustainable food production. Many leaders of the space received comprehensive agricultural and systems maintenance training in order to grow food and provide freshly harvested produce into dishes served at the restaurant and during events hosted in one of the many event spaces.
Gaia Nomaya
Glenburn Farms
Glenburn Farms purchased a 100 tower farm in Colts Neck, New Jersey and plans to grows a wide variety of vegetables and fruits for New York City and Asbury restaurant community
Ishara Masai Mara
Ishara Masai Mara in Kenya is an immersive safari experience steeped in African splendor in one of the most sought after locations in the Masai Mara National Reserve. In order to offer a diversified menu to resort guest, Ishara purchased a tower farm to grow food for the on site restaurant. Green Food Solutions supported the sale of the first Tower Farm in Africa, provided our virtual commercial farm training to the company leadership, and empowered Ishara to offer others an opportunity to have towers to grow.
Growing Places
Growing Places is a non-profit organization that provides gardening education programs to empower the North Central Massachusetts community and create equal access to healthy food. Growing Places focuses on the individuals in a community and promotes healthy and nutritional food sources as a method of improving the mental and physical health of its community members. Green Food Solutions provided their free planning and design services for the indoor basement Tower Farm, outfitted with LED grow lights, and a vertical propagation bench. We also delivered a hybrid virtual and in person Agricultural Operations and System Maintenance training to set Growing Places up to sell and donate food grown on their indoor farm to local community members.
Tower Farm Training 2019
Green Food Solutions and Tower Farms partnered in 2019 to provide a 2-day training on the Tower Farm system at Green Food Solutions' flagship Farm Amenity™ The Denizen. The training gave attendees an in-depth look at the technology, best growing practices, and maintenance, as well as tips on how to maximize their Tower Farm utilization. Attendees also received advice on marketing, pricing, and sourcing from seasoned Tower Farm growers, and had the opportunity to network with each other and with the Green Food Solutions team. The training was a great success, and participants left with a greater understanding of the Tower Farm system, as well as the confidence to start and grow their urban or commercial farms.
Equipment
Singing Streams Farm
Singing Stream Farms, located in Creedmore North Carolina, provides thoughtfully grown, fresh, and healthy produce to their local community through CSA shares is so popular they often sell out. They use the Towers in a Greenhouse in order to extend their growing season into the early spring and late fall. Ken, has helped other farmers in the NC area grow their business by speaking at conferences locally.
New York Sunworks
New York Sun Works is an EPA, NAAEE and HBSCNY award-winning non-profit organization that builds innovative science and sustainability labs in urban schools in New York City and New Jersey. Green Food Solutions is proud to supply New York Sunworks with tower growing systems for their sustainability labs and green classrooms among an array of cutting edge farming and sustainability technologies.
Provincetown MA Library
The women that run Provincetown Library located in Cape Cod MA have a commitment to their community that is inspiring. The Library hosts The Crop Swap which provides free, fresh produce to the community. The Crop Swap is a collaborative program of many local organizations. Green Food Solutions is proud to help bring year round production of fresh leafy greens to this extraordinary program.
Clifton NJ, Sustenance Farm
Al is growing food on the rooftop of a small business building in Clifton NJ. He and his associates are practicing radical self reliance by growing their own food and sharing the bounty of their yields with each other and their families.
Other Initiatives
La Perla Puerto Rico
La Perla is a community located right outside the border of Old San Juan, in Puerto Rico. It is one of the most under served communities in Puerto Rico, however, one of the most resilient and self-sufficient. The community is setting a precedent for food security using Tower Gardens and is an example of how the rest of the island can grow food for their local community, especially in the wake of natural disasters like hurricanes. Through their Because We Give a Farm charity, GFS raised enough money to ship and install 6 Tower Gardens in the community of La Perla. Because the island is still experiencing power outages, they worked with Royal Caribbean to hook the Towers up to solar panels, taking the farm off the grid. They partnered with a local tourism company Get Shopped, to run a community training and organize volunteers to install the Towers.
Kamiyama
Kamiyama is the first city in Japan to house a Green Food Solutions tower. In March of 2020, Green Food Solutions, participated in the Kamiyama International Accelerator program, S6IX. The S6IX program selected a group of startup companies with a focus on health, nutrition, agriculture and technology. Alongside their personal agendas for Japan, the startups collaborated on a group project to design an AgTech solution for the cultivation of medicinal herbs and nutrient-rich plants in an aquaponics system. The Green Food Solutions tower has been incorporated into the group project design.
Rockaway Waterfront Alliance
Green Food Solutions served as a hydroponic advisor and donated its technical support, tours, training, and fun interactive food justice and food system based programs to the Rockaway Waterfront Alliance.
Square Roots
Green Food Solutions was the first business to emerge out of the Square Roots Farming Program. We provided our Farming Service, ran our Farm to Locavore™ delivery service, and hosted events on the Square Roots campus. They mastered the art of farming inside of a 320 foot square foot indoor hydroponic farm shipping container which led to the development of and hosted volunteers days.Sky Vegetables
Green Food Solutions grew food for their Farm to Locavore™ customers from the 10,000 square foot, state of the art, rooftop hydroponic greenhouse: Sky Vegetables. Situated in the heart of The Bronx, Green Food Solutions worked with master growers to fine tune their organic growing techniques and methodology. During their residency at Sky, they conducted their Farm Service for a food processor interested in growing their own ingredients for their Whole Foods certified food product.Home Gardens
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