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Hydrponics
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On a rooftop in New York City, lettuce is grown for restaurant salads in the streets below. Hydroponic production grows plants in water, using water to get food and nutrients to the plants where they are grown without soil or where soils do not exist. This project in New York City not only produces salads for restaurants, but it also serves as a youth program that teaches children about science and plant life in a community where pavement and buildings reign..

