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The farm on the roof, what Brooklyn Grange taught us about entrepreneurship, community, and growing a sustainable business, Anastasia Cole Plakias

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The farm on the roof, what Brooklyn Grange taught us about entrepreneurship, community, and growing a sustainable business, Anastasia Cole Plakias

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eng

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non fiction

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The farm on the roof

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939245011

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Anastasia Cole Plakias

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what Brooklyn Grange taught us about entrepreneurship, community, and growing a sustainable business

Summary

In their effort to build the world's first and largest commercial green rooftop farm, the founders of Brooklyn Grange learned a lot about building and sustaining a business while never losing sight of their mission to serve their community by providing delicious organic food and changing the way people think about what they eat

Table Of Contents

Introduction: Nowhere to go but up -- The crossroads of complicity and conviction: why we left steady jobs to take a chance on a dream -- Needle in a haystack: finding a home for our farm -- Return on ideals: creative capital and the new ROI -- Just monster it: building the farm -- A work in progress: taking stock and creating order -- We are farmily: growing our team -- Growing organically: knowing when to sign a deal -- The web we weave: fifty ways to stay afloat -- It takes a village: the partnerships that make us whole -- Epilogue: Toward a healthier business ecosystem

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What Brooklyn Grange taught us about entrepreneurship, community, and growing a sustainable business

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