A Vertical Farm That’s Growing for a Greater Good
A Vertical Farm That’s Growing for a Greater Good
The daily structure and personal fulfillment of a job well done are just as crucial for individuals with autism as it is for any other adult.
Greens Do Good Media Coverage
NorthJersey.com: Hackensack Hydroponic Farm Helps Adults with Autism Find Jobs
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TapInto.net: Farming For Good in Hackensack
ABC7: 1st Hydroponic Vertical Farm to Support Adults with Autism Opens in New Jersey
My9NJ.com: Vertical farm employs and helps adults with autism
FIOS1News.com: Bergen vertical hydroponics farm opens to support people with autism
NewJersey.News12.com: New Jersey does its part to raise awareness on World Autism Day
Asian American Life: Marking the beginning of Autism Awareness Month
Greens Do Good offers adults with autism hands-on job training and purposeful work experience.
Walk into Greens Do Good—a hydroponic, vertical farm in Hackensack, New Jersey—and you’ll see REED Next clients hard at work. Each individual has exposure to different tasks at the farm, including planting, seeding, watering, and assistance with harvesting, helping them gain valuable skills, confidence, and the opportunity to work alongside their peers.
Greens Do Good utilizes hydroponic vertical farming methods, which minimize the impact to the environment by using less water and energy than traditional farms. Plants are grown indoors on stacked trays, greatly improving yield per square foot. In place of soil, we use rock wool (spun volcanic rock) and grow stone (recycled glass) for our larger crops, and coco coir (ground coconut husks) to grow our microgreens. We never use pesticides or herbicides.
Greens Do Good is open year-round and currently growing basil, baby kale, baby arugula, butterhead lettuce, and over 20 varieties of microgreens. Our produce is hand-picked and packed at the height of freshness and sold to local restaurants, country clubs, supermarkets, food service providers, and through home delivery.
Visit greensdogood.com to learn more about our produce and how we’re supporting individuals with autism.
Greens Do Good offers adults with autism hands-on job training and purposeful work experience.
Walk into Greens Do Good—a hydroponic, vertical farm in Hackensack, New Jersey—and you’ll see REED Next clients hard at work. Each individual has exposure to different tasks at the farm, including planting, seeding, watering, and assistance with harvesting, helping them gain valuable skills, confidence, and the opportunity to work alongside their peers.
Greens Do Good utilizes hydroponic vertical farming methods, which minimize the impact to the environment by using less water and energy than traditional farms. Plants are grown indoors on stacked trays, greatly improving yield per square foot. In place of soil, we use rock wool (spun volcanic rock) and grow stone (recycled glass) for our larger crops, and coco coir (ground coconut husks) to grow our microgreens. We never use pesticides or herbicides.
Greens Do Good is open year-round and currently growing basil, baby kale, baby arugula, butterhead lettuce, and over 20 varieties of microgreens. Our produce is hand-picked and packed at the height of freshness and sold to local restaurants, country clubs, supermarkets, food service providers, and through home delivery.
Visit greensdogood.com to learn more about our produce and how we’re supporting individuals with autism.
The daily structure and personal fulfillment of a job well done are just as crucial for individuals with autism as it is for any other adult.
Greens Do Good Media Coverage
NorthJersey.com: Hackensack Hydroponic Farm Helps Adults with Autism Find Jobs
NorthJersey.com Image Gallery >>
TapInto.net: Farming For Good in Hackensack
ABC7: 1st Hydroponic Vertical Farm to Support Adults with Autism Opens in New Jersey
My9NJ.com: Vertical farm employs and helps adults with autism
FIOS1News.com: Bergen vertical hydroponics farm opens to support people with autism
NewJersey.News12.com: New Jersey does its part to raise awareness on World Autism Day
Asian American Life: Marking the beginning of Autism Awareness Month