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Citiponics co-founder Danielle Chan at the company's farm on the rooftop of an HDB multistorey carpark in Ang Mo Kio Avenue 6. The farm uses a system of fired clay pebble-filled tubings to grow leafy Georgina lettuce without the use of soil. It produces up to four tonnes of vegetables every month and supplies them to NTUC FairPrice supermarkets. Ms Chan says that demand has outstripped supply since the farm started operations in February.
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For a bright spot amid the economic gloom, look upwards - to a Housing Board multistorey carpark in Ang Mo Kio Avenue 6.
There, nestled amid the high-rises, and on the carpark's rooftop deck, is a system of fired clay pebble-filled tubings called vertical growing towers sprouting leafy Georgina lettuce without the use of soil.
