Urban growers go high-tech to feed city dwellers
November 21, 2008 By JACOB ADELMAN , Associated Press Writer
Terry Fujimoto , plant sciences professor at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, checks his students' hydroponics agriculture projects inside a greenhouse on the campus in Pomona, Calif. on Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. Fujimoto's program is at the forefront of an effort to use hydroponics -- a method of growing plants in water instead of soil -- to bring farming into the urban areas where consumers are concentrated. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
(AP) -- Terry Fujimoto sees the future of agriculture in the exposed roots of the leafy greens he and his students grow in thin streams of water at a campus greenhouse.
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