Weed?

Looks like we all thought the same thing from the headline.

Lots of space in there.

I refuse to believe that a giant hydroponic grow operation on Humboldt St. has nothing to do with marijuana.

You could grow a lot of tomatoes in there.

Somebodys pH pen is getting a real workout

RedfordRenegade: You can put your weed in there.

no, New York isn't that progressive. they are actually very authoritarian there. I know, shocking.

Not first by a longshot.

A Fiesta store in Clear Lake outside of Houston did this in 1989. (new window)

There's several ways to hate this. There's the class conscious route of needing "fancy" vegetables. Key words are latte, organic, and Whole Paycheck.

There's also the confused insult route of calling them hipster yuppie douches. This is a manifestation of the fear of not knowing what's hip.

There's the "this is stupid... I bet they think they're so smug" line of attack and then segueway into a Prius critique.

Personally, I'm going the hipster on hipster crime route: Ahem... yeah, that's cool and all that you're gardening in Billyburg... but what is this? 2007?! I only dumpster dive for organic vegetables grown by an old Indian woman with a glass eye. It's the most authentic way of sourcing your vegetables. I'd tell you more about it, but it would wreck your whole corporate whitebread hydroponic organic urban gardening paradigm.

joewhite: Not first by a longshot.

A Fiesta store in Clear Lake outside of Houston did this in 1989. (new window)

They said "urban" not "exurban".

SweetSilverBlues: Perhaps they just forgot the word "legal".

I'm thinking this.

SoCalSurfer: Weed?

Idea is old AND busted: Nanticoke bowling alley raided in marijuana bust

/I only remember this because my brother-in-law was one of the Troopers that busted it
//CSB

LOL @ the fact the warehouse is on Humboldt St.

joewhite: Not first by a longshot.

A Fiesta store in Clear Lake outside of Houston did this in 1989. (new window)

I wonder if it's still in operation, fortunately the guy who works across the hall lives down that way

This is actually a really cool article. I just wonder how much they charge for a little plastic container of their produce? It's probably like $8.50 for one of these:

I had a customer who was designing hydroponic equipment, too bad they aren't in that business anymore they could have had someone in the US who actually would talk about what they were growing.

Most of their customers were in south america growing vegetables

Rapmaster2000: There's several ways to hate this. There's the class conscious route of needing "fancy" vegetables. Key words are latte, organic, and Whole Paycheck. There's also the confused insult route of calling them hipster yuppie douches. This is a manifestation of the fear of not knowing what's hip. There's the "this is stupid... I bet they think they're so smug" line of attack and then segueway into a Prius critique. Personally, I'm going the hipster on hipster crime route: Ahem... yeah, that's cool and all that you're gardening in Billyburg... but what is this? 2007?! I only dumpster dive for organic vegetables grown by an old Indian woman with a glass eye. It's the most authentic way of sourcing your vegetables. I'd tell you more about it, but it would wreck your whole corporate whitebread hydroponic organic urban gardening paradigm.

I do love the "corporate whitebread hydroponic organic urban gardening paradigm" phrase, however.

mama2tnt: Rapmaster2000: There's several ways to hate this. There's the class conscious route of needing "fancy" vegetables. Key words are latte, organic, and Whole Paycheck. There's also the confused insult route of calling them hipster yuppie douches. This is a manifestation of the fear of not knowing what's hip. There's the "this is stupid... I bet they think they're so smug" line of attack and then segueway into a Prius critique. Personally, I'm going the hipster on hipster crime route: Ahem... yeah, that's cool and all that you're gardening in Billyburg... but what is this? 2007?! I only dumpster dive for organic vegetables grown by an old Indian woman with a glass eye. It's the most authentic way of sourcing your vegetables. I'd tell you more about it, but it would wreck your whole corporate whitebread hydroponic organic urban gardening paradigm.

I do love the "corporate whitebread hydroponic organic urban gardening paradigm" phrase, however.

Damnit! And I wrote it segway the first time!

soup: This is actually a really cool article. I just wonder how much they charge for a little plastic container of their produce? It's probably like $8.50 for one of these:

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Dude, that's a million dollars worth of... uhm... lettuce.

loonatic112358: joewhite: Not first by a longshot.

A Fiesta store in Clear Lake outside of Houston did this in 1989. (new window)

I wonder if it's still in operation, fortunately the guy who works across the hall lives down that way

That Fiesta closed down years ago.

bmr68: That Fiesta closed down years ago.

damn

Cybernetic: Aren't greenhouses indoor by definition?

Indoor greenhouse = no windows, but lights

So, technically, it isn't even a greenhouse, but a grow room.

Bowling and a growing in the same place? The Dude approves, man.

"On the first harvest day we had so much lettuce we almost didn't know what to do with it all, but now we can't grow it fast enough," said greenhouse director Jennifer Nelkin.

They call it lettuce now? Damn it, I really need to keep up on these newfangled slang terms.

soup: This is actually a really cool article. I just wonder how much they charge for a little plastic container of their produce? It's probably like $8.50 for one of these:

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So you grow organic greens only to put them into large plastic containers?

angrygrizzly: "On the first harvest day we had so much lettuce we almost didn't know what to do with it all, but now we can't grow it fast enough," said greenhouse director Jennifer Nelkin.

They call it lettuce now? Damn it, I really need to keep up on these newfangled slang terms.

I believe the correct term is "hippie lettuce".

It wouldn't even be the first one in Brooklyn. LOTS of grows in that area in the 2000's

joewhite: Not first by a longshot.

A Fiesta store in Clear Lake outside of Houston did this in 1989. (new window)

Phyto-farms in Dekalb IL in 1987 (new window)

This is an absolutely perfect use of the unlikely tag. Read the headline, saw tag, laughed.

Phyto-farms wasn't roof-top though. To Rapmaster's point, it also wasn't urban. (is urban supposed to make the achievement greater? - like overcoming a handicap of some kind)

But it was done 25 years ago...

FreakinB: On nights when I work late I get to take a car back home. One of the landmarks on the LIE in Queens, due to the lighting, is a store on the service road called Hydroponic Garden Centers. And even though I'm sure it's a legitimate business, I keep waiting to see the cops raiding the place as I pass it one night.

The business is almost certainly legit. Many of their customers may not be, but they have to buy fertilizer & lamps *somewhere* -- and those products are not illegal.

/ There's at least one spot on a street in Berkeley (that I know of) where you can stand and see 3 different indoor/hydroponic grow stores at once