During my trip to NYC, I visited Jonathan Sumner, the Farm Manager at Riverpark Farm, one of the most unusual urban farms I’ve ever visited.
He grows in 3,200 individual milk creates on real estate that’s probably some of the most expensive in the city. All of the produce goes to Riverpark, a celebrity chef-owned high-end restaurant right on the water, surrounded by the Bellevue Hospital and the UN building.
In this long tour, we dive deep with Jonathan and learn how he’s producing such epic harvests out of what looks to be a challenging growing space – many small crates, crazy wind, and minimal sun.
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– https://www.instagram.com/riverparknyc/
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Video Rating: / 5
0:00 – Intro
1:04 – Greenhouse
3:10 – Surrounding Area and Growing Challenges
4:03 – Growing Fresh Lima Beans
6:43 – Why Grow In Milk Crates?
8:59 – Cover Cropping Milk Crates
11:51 – Irrigating Milk Crates
15:11 – Growing Okra and Sorghum
17:15 – Walking Tour of Beds
23:46 – Growing Indigo to Dye Cloth
26:05 – Sun Challenges and Crate Rotation
33:22 – Outro and Taste Test of Different Produce
Awesome! Sure hope that restaurant doesn't go out of business since you put all of your eggs in one basket.
Shut up and let the farmer talk!
you need to water with compost tea as well, then test your nutrient and mineral content with the refractometer…..would love to know some facts about this set up…….why do Gardners never want to know the facts about what they are actually doing…..well like they say nobody likes the truth….
He said he let's the butterfly lay eggs and the larve to grow because many people in the city dont get to see butterflies? As a coutry boy i have to ask why the hell would someone live where there are no butterflies or things !Ike that? That is not live, that is just existing!
no water filteration system to take out the chlorine and fluorine……..what?…….really?……….wow……..
Cool idea but…. Farming in ground zero armpit of one of the most polluted cities in the world! Get this young man a half acre of ground away from the toxic filth!
PBA MILK CRATES
7:09 "The main reason we chose milk crates…" Other dude: "achooo!" What? So what did he say?????????
Great job and presentation. Thanks.
Excuse me for asking I'm in South Africa and we don't get the things you have. Could you tell me what the crates are lined with and are they lined at the bottom as well? Would appreciate.
Try wine cap mushrooms. I grew way too many by accident. Seems like they would work with your system. The chef may celebrate.
Wish you showed how the line the crates.
I couldn’t finish viewing – very tedious listening to film maker – would have been more valuable to let farmer speak more, view more items –
E P I C !!!!!
What about car pollution with all the traffic is that not in the items you are growing and consumed by the customers in the restaurant
I've been growing okra in milk crates for 2 years now. 4 plants per crate works really well.
Is that some sort of insert in the milk crates to keep the dirt from coming out?
The audio is horrible, splurge on $10 mics/windscreens
Add a lined bed and put the crates inside of the bed, this will cut down on wind drying out the soil. Any water leaching when it rains and when he waters can be collected and drained into a separate sump.