If you've wandered around downtown St. Petersburg, you've probably passed 48 acres of farmland and had no idea.
Brick Street Farms is growing leafy greens inside upcycled shipping containers in a warehouse and parking lot at Tropicana Field — and they're about to get a whole lot more growing power. The company, which started with three shipping containers in 2016, is expanding to at least 20 containers, which accounts for an estimated 60 acres of farmland packed into a third of a city block.
Like many tech companies, Brick Street Farms started in a garage. Founders and spouses Shannon O'Malley and Brad Doyle wanted to grow food in their own backyard but struggled with not wanting to use pesticides and laborious composting.
"We just really liked growing things, and we thought that as humans, we could do better," O'Malley told Axios. "We learned from a lot of the big warehouse grows that started in the early 2000s. We wanted to look at a model that would take us into 2060 and 2070. That's why we designed ours differently."
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