On Monday October 17th, 2016, Professor Krondl took us heading to see the Brooklyn Navy Yard rooftop garden. The Brooklyn Navy Yard rooftop garden farming plants have many kind of vegetable like , carrots, tomatoes, lettuces, peppers kale and Chickens. They have soil all the way from Pennsylvania and doesn’t use pesticides, that lead to the crops are healthier and way different crops we purchase from the supermarket. Before the garden was set on the rooftop, most of the water runoff went to the sewage system and now they have water pump up to the water tank to create an automatic watering system. Also the chance for the rooftop to get amount rain and sun in New York City. I learned that how they make farming in a sustainable idea of being able to use resource over again and maintain a good amount of resource. It is totally environmental-friendly.
After reading the article “Supersize”, I feel like other state farming or conventional farming are way different from rooftop farming. The conventional farming show a large area and produce a huge amount of product every years or every months or even every weeks. It has a magnificent quantity result, but the negative side is using pesticides and chemical fertilizers. The reason is farming in a big farm there are large amount of insect in the fields, it is difficult for farmer to deal with them. So some farmer use pesticides to kill insect and also harm the plants. For chemical fertilizers make the product grow fast and quicker, eventually it will make the product may not seem most healthiest. In the rooftop garden is more focus on organic product so there won’t be any pesticides and chemical fertilizers in their farming.
In the United States, President Obama had the most issue on food system and there has to be change. He didn’t make any new act that seem to help the industry grow back up. The sustainability of agriculture is effected, for example the amount of fossil fuels is use during the transportation crops contributed great amount of CO2, cause pollution and global warming. The world need sustainability of ideas that can be environmental-friendly to fix the or minimize the negatives of farming.