Interesting piece today by Keila Torres of the Connecticut Post featuring Barry “Spanky” Piesner, campaign handler for Democratic Mayoral candidate Charlie Coviello. And is that Joel Thompson, former CT Post scribe? Joel knows a lot about living off the land. When he wasn’t scribing he was farming.
When Barry Piesner and Joel Thompson began creating a plan to construct a hydroponic greenhouse farm in Bridgeport, they wondered why none existed in this area.
Why wouldn’t a New England city have a way to harvest fresh food year ’round without the need for soil?
As they began assessing their heating and energy needs for the indoor farm, though, the team quickly understood the rarity of such ventures.
Entire story www.ctpost.com/news/article/Could-a-trash-plant-help-grow-crops-1346322.php
In keeping with Earth Day and our beloved mayor’s desire to lead the greenest community, AND, his comments that we need to build up brownfields not greenfields, can someone explain why he is supporting the building of a high school on parkland when we have so many other sites that can be used for this purpose? Perhaps the “green” he’s looking for is paper with presidential portraits on it? Time to head out to pasture, Bill!
This is a good thing, if it creates a large number of permanent jobs …
Great idea, I hope it works.
I was wondering, have soil samples been taken and tested before we classify land as a brownfield? Where can the results of this testing be found?
I recall reading many properties in downtown Bridgeport have been declared brownfields, even if they are not contaminated by industrial pollution. Mayor Finch’s claims that “there is no class-A real estate downtown” are accurate. What he hasn’t said is at least some of the “brownfields” could be reclassified. But that would require a pasta pow-wow …