Do Mobile Farms Guzzle More Gas Than They’re Worth?

Truck farming is all the rage. Not the farms where 16-wheelers haul away produce to distant markets. Farms growing in the vehicles themselves.

First, there was designer Marco Castro’s small test plot aboard the BioBus. He was demonstrating to the Metropolitan Transit Agency that it was possible to wheel around commuters under a verdant carpet of greenery (we covered this here). Then came “Truck Farm” a mobile garden education effort in Brooklyn, as well as a similar projectsprouting in Chicago. More…