"GROWING WITHOUT DIRT: URBAN GREENSCAPING AND HYDROPONICS"

Naomi Donabedian at Cantaloupe Alone (http://cantaloupealone.blogspot.com) writes

Bob Hyland is an urban greenscaping professional with almost forty years of experience since his days running a leading interior plantscaping company in Los Angeles. He was a national industry organization speaker, writer and educator during those years. http://www.insideurbangreen.org

Gwen Hill is an urban farmer, garden educator and local food lover based in Brooklyn, NY.  She is a team member at Prospect Farm, and leads a gardening program at the Harbor School, a public high school on Governors Island.  She worked as the director of education and greenhouse manager at the Science Barge, a sustainable hydroponic urban farm and environmental education center in Yonkers for two years.  She holds a bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies and is completing her MA in Geography at Hunter College, for which she is studying the diversity of NYC's urban agriculture movement. http://prospectfarm.org

Meera Bhat is part of the team at Prospect Farm, a neighborhood growing initiative in Windsor Terrace that is working together to grow food in a formerly vacant lot. She lives in Prospect Park South and works as a project manager at the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University.

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