Meet Viraj Puri, CEO and Co-Founder of Gotham Greens | One Small Step
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- On this episode of One Small Step Spotlight, Lucy visits Gotham Greens, a hydroponic farming business growing leafy greens year round.
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The majority of lettuce in the U.S. is grown in California and Arizona--Gotham Greens is trying to change that.
The hydroponic farming business is building greenhouses in major cities like NYC, Chicago, and Providence, as well as most recently in Baltimore and Denver, to supply nutritious longer lasting nutritionally dense produce year round.
On this One Small Step Spotlight, Lucy talks with CEO and Co-Founder Viraj Puri about the future of farming and takes a tour of a Gotham Greens greenhouse, check it out to find out more!
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Wow this is such an amazing project - you’re a great host too Lucy 🙌🏻
The iPhone is more stable than the actual camera lol . But I can’t wait till they adopts these systems everywhere
This man is a genius but come on you don't need to put that lettuce in plastics like there is no transport !!!
hydroponic farming or vertical farming is not his idea. There are plenty of people trying to do the same thing.
Very smart. I’m glad more people are adopting these practices and this man’s business is promoting this industry.
@@HKashaf I dont see anyone else whos company is integrated directly into whole foods, an Amazon Company. Dont waste people's time with your useless comments
@@2023awakening kindness doesn't hurt mate. No need for your comment. Let's all be nice to each other.
@@nickpenney4953 someone commented a misleading statement and you say my comment is the uncessary one?? Might want to learn how to read.
Down to earth guy, knows his stuff.
Been growing hydroponic greens since 1979 . It’s interesting how little the industry has changed and hasn’t changed. The automation has changed but still the very core basics are still being used.
I think the core will always stay the same, there is room for improvements here and there but the system if it works there is no need to change it ;)
Amazing system. I guess also the greenhouse where the plants are produced works as an insulation for the supermarket below. Everything is fantastic: less waste, less GHG emissions and all the things said during the video. Small negative aspect, for me, is the plastic packaging; I know is the best way to sell the productes but is there , maybe, an alternative way to pack these delicious products.
Great job Lucy Biggers, keep doing a great job.
Hugs and positive energy from Sicily
thank you! yes this system is great but definitely not perfect
Amazing idea. But I wonder how financially viable this is. They should've covered that also in this video. If they can sell at a price same as or less than traditionally farmed lettuce, this idea is a goldmine!
I can't decide if this is part of the reason it's on top of whole foods rather than a regular grocery store. People at Whole Foods seem more likely to pay a bit more for sustainably sourced produce. Maybe it is actually cheaper though.
same thought
financially viable? compared to dirt farming & disease containment, pesticides, nitrogen/ammonia fertilizer, storms, crop insurance, hail, then harvesting and trucking it miles to market? Yes, I think it is financially viable :)
I’m so happy this showed up on my recommend
:)
Your videos are one of my favorites to watch. Keep doing what your doing. Your such a gift! You are making much more than one small step! You are moving mountains! Love your passion! 🙏💕
Thanks Rachel!
This is so amazing. The city I live in is having this put in motion with a building project they are doing that will be done in 2 years. I can't wait to have this in our area
it's the best!
Your mobile phone footage is so much more sharper and clearer.. crazy
U r so inspirational .. I wait for your videos every minutes ☺️☺️❤️
Would love to see these go up in food deserts! This could really do so much to alleviate poverty!!!
Amazing Farming on absolutely correct place , Very informatic video. Thanks Lucy.
this is the future. and present.. we can grow our own produce all year round, there is so much knowledge here.. Love this.Gotham Greens. and this is Superman,,ty for the video.
Great documentary! Thanks for sharing :)
Love what are you doing!
Love how he said it's one of the options.
Totally love this 👍
1 thing they forgot to mention which mainly only works with the one they r touring in, not sure if others r like this.... Rooftop farming uses less space, protects the store better, & also stops the redirection of our sunlight back into space. Genious! That point alone add to &/or improves upon Kimbal Musk's farm "Square Roots".
4:05 that (photosynthesis) is so wild
these are amazing for food deserts around the world
This is one of the coolest concepts I've ever seen. I hope this catches on!
i love the way video is shot, especially the phone camera view,
Wow fantastic!
Amazing. I love your greens. I love the rocky mountain crunch. I love it all everything you guys have an amazing your company is amazing. Amazing amazing. Amazing yes it is.
So Harvey Dent is working in Gotham farms now
It’s Gotham Greens
🤣🤣🤣
He represents the plants and land lol
Great leadership in basic need of life, Viraj.
J surender singal
This is all great but I've read there's also a lot of challenges with indoor/ vertical farming and I wish they talked about that a little here! From what I've read it's very very easy for plants to all die out if someone's carrying a mold spore or what not since all of the plants are uniform and identical.
Very smart instead of shipping it miles away, I'd support this in a heart beat
I love her videos! Great job as always. I wish more stores had these little farms right upstairs. And I was loving this so much until the very end when I saw all the unnecessary plastic. I mean great video, but why the plastic containers? Why?!
We need these farms in Australia. We are going thru the worst Drought in living memory. And the politicians have done Nothing as usual.
Franco Soliman We have plenty of them.
Its been raining here for 1 week straight in California. Ya'll need to plant more trees.
This is definitely the way to go for salad leaves. Anything you eat raw and leafy!
Who are the people that give this a thumbs down? Wonderful idea, long overdue....no pesticides!!
This is so cool
I wish Hawai’i could do something like this. Their economy could use a greater emphasis on local, sustainable agriculture.
Matthew over here in hawaii we do aquaponics and have been before you were born
It's super cool.
Great to see Harvey Dent Farming!!
amazing bro
Beautiful...
What else can we grow except leaves with this?
with all that space between the plants and the lights they could maybe set up a shelf in between with more lights and hydroponics beneath? Double up their production, conserve empty space. intersperse them right and you'd still get sunlight through too.
What if costco build 2nd for in their warehouses and use the second floor to green house or garden
Pro tip. Stop saying wow and right ALL THE FREAKING TIME! let your subject speak!
thanks for the tip!
@@lucylyonsbiggers sorry but it got me into an emotional state 😉
Chobaca all good! I know i respond too much. But it’s just what you naturally do in a conversation. So it feels rude when you’re filming and you just have to nod and not speak!
@@lucylyonsbiggers yeah I guess it's got something to do with us being social animals. You know mirror neurons and the like.
Since whole foods are expensive stores, they should all have a Gotham greenhouse upstairs to reduce packaging and shipping so the prices can be cheaper (after thr initial investment).
You inspires.
Synthetic OR organic ?? which solution do you use to pump through those lines to feed the plants?
Interesting. In order to scale this, we would need a lot of PVC pipes. How many yields does this generate a year?
what about power consumption?..i think its really a great thing
will this be featured in the new DC movie?
Who else saw the sign at 5:49 that said eat more plants😂
Everyone gansta until Poison Ivy shows up
Soil is used because of the by products that bacteria and fungi produce. Those by product are the nutrients. So where do the nutrients come from if your not using soil? Great idea but longevity of hydroponics depends on nutrients production.
Those plastic 1 use containers, just a major waste.
They are reusable containers not single use
very true, they should just shove the produce into customer's shirt pockets :)
Super cool, I worked for great lakes growers in ohio.
I don't think the liquid fertilizer gives all the nutrients organic soil would give, but the greens are fresh that's good. There should be better a packaging for local food.
I knew batman was real 🔥
Fighting for justice and efficient produce!
Do they operate year round?
All was well until he pulls out the plastic container 😕
Exactly !
Space Slider the pipes the plants are growing in are made of pvc which is a very tough and resistant type of plastic that is what is used largely for the movement of water under your house which means it will last a very long time
I’m not talking about the PVC piping. I’m talking about the single use plastic that is used to sell the produce. They should encourage people to bring their own containers and or bags they already have a longer life cycle that allows for that
I mean, recycling is a thing. but yeah, a more friendly solution would be nice. Like a paper package would do just as well I'd think if it's going directly from greenhouse to buyer. I work in a grocery store and a lot of the produce is being sprayed with like, waaaaaaaaaaaaay too much water to the point where plastic is sadly the only decent option for packaging.
@@transit-future seriously? ... Are you gonna go down to plastic atoms in your arguments? So in conclusion you dont mind pesticides in traditional farming but will go crazy about PVC pipes ? hahahah paranoia :D
Is this there ,back in india ehhh viraj???
You are so funny. I love that!
All I need is couple milli to start this business. Any one here to help me out
Ever been to the Netherlands? There's thousands of these things. Not above shops, but hundreds of square km's of glass houses . And of course glasshouse flowers from west Nederland exported all over the world. but very nice anyway. Brian Oosterbeek Netherlands.
Gotham is really Chicago.
Viraj has dad humor!
Take a drink every time she says, Wow.
This type of farming could change the world.
I lost my count of how many times she said she's so excited 🤣🤣🤣🤣
That facility pumps in CO2, a natural fertilizer, to speed up vegetative growth. It’s no pollutant.
This indian guy is so handsome
He is nepali
@@CoronaVirus-fu3zl Puri are Indian Punjabi people
@@MegaApurv007 puri are nepali pahari people
How to work there?
While this is cool, you really need to start challenging this idea that plants don't need earth to grow. Of course they don't need it to grow. But without soil microbiology, there's no chance the nutrition profile is identical. I love the space effciency, the reduced distance to grocery and the reduced water. I'm not convinced that there's no difference in nutrition with zero soil use and without a fungal and microbilogical network that you get from growing in the earth.
You are for the most part accurate. They add nutrients to the water to supplement the lack of soil. So the plant is ending up with equivalent quality but dependent on man made nutrients.
@@ianrobinson476 yes but soil microbiology is more than just nutrients. It's also worms tunneling and aerating the soil. It's so many things that can't just be imitated.
@@transit-future it's not my own idea. It's what I have learned about the soil over the years and from speaking to farmers. I forgot to mention it but adding micronutrients cannot mimick the fungal network present in soil. That's huge from a chemical reaction point of view.
We got so many amateurs scientists and hard core save the earth environmentalists here. They freak out when the veggie is packaged in plastic. I don’t recall Puri saying he is an environmentalist.
*Puts on gloves to be clean when harvesting*
2 seconds later grabs phone...
Just more waste wash your hands.
It’s totally unnecessary to wear gloves for this case. Just a waste!
My little suggestion to this farm is to play some music in farm it helps plants for better growth 🤩
they do play music! we had to turn it down while we filmed
This man owns Gotham and looks like Bruce Wayne. That's more insane than his farm!
Bernie 2020 makes sense to me. How about you guys?
6:38 Excellent! Love this.
That "metaphor" he was using ends at "Sausage party"
pesticide free in a greenhouse? so if you have pest pressure you just throw everything out and restart?
1:40 same to the idea i m developing
How are co2 levels controlled?
I don't get it
vivek nalawade I mean: is CO2 from non-renewable sources added to the air to boost growth rates? Also, how are the supplemental heaters powered?
The ? about soil needed for plant growth. Soil anchors plants from being blown away by wind or washed away by rain, etc. & not necessary in a greenhouse.
"It gets it's license.." 5:48
haha we took that joke really far
"Farm of the future" makes salads.
Great, we can feed everybody with it's super nutritive leafs.
Well you can't really plant anything else in water
@@TotalGAMIX any leafy veggies, chilly/pepper,eggplant, tomato,cucumbers etc
All plants need carbon - CO2. Support 500 ppm atmospheric CO2.
She acts so much like a sorority girl; kind of wish they switched interviewers to someone who acted more mature and was more knowledgeable
Whatever he said is apparent by looking at the plant themselves. Nothing new in this video. It feels promotional rather than anything else. They definitely need better interviewers. Someone who actually understands the background and has studied some.
I say Valley Girl. “OMG, wow, sooo cool, like so cool”. Do they teach English in school anymore?
Great going bro. Make nepali-americans proud!
"right"
Why is she filming on her phone? They already have a cameraman/woman. WEIRD! VERY WEIRD!
Its an easy way to have 2 angles w/o the bulk of a 2nd camera person. I know its kind of a new look but works really well when you're on location like this
So many comments about the plastic packaging. I'm sure he if he had a viable alternate, he would have used it. Maybe the customers like it that way. Why not just take so many good with the one bad and hope things will get better soon! Your Coke and Lays and tortilla are still packed in plastic, have you stopped buying it. Why expect so much from a startup, when you don't expect it from a conglomerate?
True that
@@transit-future yes but some people can't think a bit further
@@transit-future you are the one fighting the opinion on the person who commented above. Maybe follow your own advice
@@transit-future I definitely agree. Its great that we are all different
@@transit-future lol
Large spacecraft, like for a hundred people, would probably need a farm like this.
😇
35 times the produce of a traditional farm using 97% less land. But, can this be used to grow carrots, potatoes, onions, celery.
Looks like Harvey dent
Every school should have a greenhouse like this for their meals and integrate it into the curriculum!
he be so handsome
Everythings is so great!
But why *plastic containers* ????
What else can he use? Do you buy your food in plastic containers?
Total GAMIX no I don't, the stupid n fancy idea of selling veggies in plastic containers is popular in developed countries only!
So I have never brought any vegetables in plastic container yet!
He can open multiple small scale shops in the city! Or can use plastic containers in more sustainable way, for instance he can rent plastic containers to his buyers, if you give the plastic container back to the facility to reuse u'll get some discount (which is the cost of container)
The sad thing is people wants to buy vegetables and stuff in plastic containers because it looks professional and fancy. Also there is not very much alternatives that works and looks good
Total GAMIX you don't have to buy it in plastic container at all.... You can have your own bag to carry those vegetables!
@@hiteshjambhale2541 yes but tell that to the millions of people who are buying in in containers
Ooooooh my God!! Oh wow!! Oh wow, this is like living in the fuuuututre lol. Wow!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Gotham needs a hero, The white night of Gotham! Two Face Harvey
Well it will never be natural thing.
But we get it , it is good for business.
I will stick with the land thing, thank you.