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“The greenhouse uses aquaponics, a mix of aquaculture, breeding of fish in tanks, and hydroponics, which is cultivating plants in water. In aquaponics, the byproducts of raising fish are broken down into nitrates, which feed the plants in an adjoining tank.

It means you can grow food faster – a head of lettuce will grow in under a month – and in small spaces, according to Howard Lucas. Lucas, of the company Greenvitalize Urban Growers, a co-operatively run for profit business, is set to manage the greenhouse.

The greenhouse itself is a co-operative operation, an environmentally friendly, employee-owned for profit business that is of the kind being incubated through Worcester Roots, a non-profit that seeks to create economic opportunities for youth, while following a mantra of social and economic justice.”

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Mr. Lucas told about 30 students, volunteers, organizers and officials gathered inside Stone Soup that Greenvitalize is seeking to build a cooperative organization to maintain the greenhouse, experimenting with different crop varieties to maximize efficiency.

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