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US (OK): Nonprofit organization expects new grow facility to open this year

Food on the Move's new Urban Farm is expected to open later this year. The Tulsa-based nonprofit focuses on food insecurity. FOX23 spoke with Rusty Rowe, Program Director of Food on the Move. "We are working to transform food deserts and issues associated with growing up food insecure," he said.

Urban Farm, a 10,000 square foot indoor grow facility, is phase one of the Food on the Move Food Home Campus, Rowe explained. "We're going to be producing 180,000 pounds of produce every year," he said.

Rowe said some of that produce will be distributed through Food on the Move's community food and resource festivals, and some will be sold to local markets to help cover the cost of the facility. They will have tomatoes, cucumbers, jalapenos, and tons of different kinds of lettuce. Urban Farm will also produce microgreens which are nutrient-dense.

Urban Farm will use hydroponics, which Rowe said is a great way to grow indoors where you can control the environment. "Oklahoma weather is not the nicest to our farmers, so to create a new generation of farmers, we're kind of focusing on indoor grows," he said.

Rowe said Food on the Move will still teach traditional outdoor gardening, but they wanted to provide this option to raise the next generation of farmers.

Read more at Fox23

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