Farmers and Food

A sustainable rooftop hospitality garden is located at Brooklyn Navy Yard. It is at one of the strongest building in this area that was builded before World War II. This makes it a better place to grow plants. Most of what this garden produces is green vegetables that are easy to grow due to the available resources that the workers have in that acre. For example, amount of sunlight, temperature, water, root space, and more. At this garden workers have the aerobic decomposition system from everything they collect from the garden and they use it for the plants that they grow in the garden.  The produce goes to the culinary classes at NYCCT. In addition, there is a Community Supported Agriculture that gives fresh locally produce to residents. Based on the film, farmers have their own way of farming their farms. There are farmers that don’t use pesticides and some do use it for the plants and animals to prevent diseases. This is due to the insects that are harmful to the produce. But it also harms some of the insects that are beneficial to us, the bees. The bees produce honey and get the pollen from the farms that have pesticides, this cause the bees to die. This can also harm humans by consuming products that have been exposed to chemical solutions. All of that goes to our body and can create a disease. This is the reason why some farmers don’t use chemical solutions but they sometimes increase the price of the items. Some farmers export their produce and others sell it fresh at their local community. Based on the “Super Size” article farmers usually have large amount of land where they produce large quantities of vegetables and fruits. Some also have different type of animals that they have to feed until they are ready to be sold. Most of this products are transported to wholesales stores like Costco. Finally farmers have to find a better way to maintain their products without killing bees or other beneficial insects.