A garden grows without sunlight in the shadow of the Texas Star at Fair Park. The nonprofit Restorative Farms calls it Grozilla, a hydroponic greenhouse made from two shipping containers.
"It's a shallow water culture," Restorative Farms Head Grower Angel Giron said, explaining how the rows of leafy greens grow without soil. "This is 5-star lettuce, so this is a mix of 5 different lettuce types."
Restorative Farms started with an urban farm in South Dallas to grow healthy vegetables for the community and plant seeds for agriculture career opportunities.
"You think about traditional farming, big farming; it's a tractor in the middle of Kansas," Dr. Doric Earle said. "We're not trying to do that. We need to train people to be entrepreneurs because no big business is going to come to that community and hire them," Earle said. "So people have to build their own way."
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