EcoVeggies entrepreneurs bring urban farming, fresh produce to Newark

By Barry Carter/Star-Ledger
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on December 03, 2010 at 8:00 AM

NEWARK — Seeds are sprinkled from a pizza shaker, the kind you’d normally see filled with red pepper flakes or parmesan cheese.

Tiny granules of arugula are in one. Komatsuna and fun jen, an Asian variety that produces a crunchy like cabbage in each leafy bite, pour out of another. Every 18 days or so, they get doused over a soft, white cloth fabric neatly attached to eight metal trays on two levels of a mechanical contraption at St. Philip’s Academy in Newark -> Read more … EcoVeggies entrepreneurs bring urban farming, fresh produce to Newark