Jenn Frymark has taken what she learned in the UA’s Controlled Environment Agriculture Center and turned it into a highly successful business, says center director Gene Giacomelli.
Alumna Takes Lettuce Growing to Big-City Rooftops, Bigtime
Using skills she attained in the UA’s Controlled Environment Agriculture Center, Jenn Frymark, co-founder of Gotham Greens, grows 10 million heads of lettuce and other greens year-round, without soil, inside greenhouses in New York and Chicago.
At the University of Arizona, Jenn Frymark helped develop a greenhouse for extreme weather and then spent six months at the South Pole growing food for scientific researchers.
Now she grows 10 million heads of lettuce and other greens year-round, without soil, in considerably more benign conditions inside greenhouses in New York and Chicago.
Frymark is the poster child for the UA’s Controlled Environment Agriculture Center, where she did her graduate studies.
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