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FBN's Jeff Flock visits a market for local food to see how a small start-up company is capitalizing on this trend.
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Well Thanksgiving now just a couple days -- many of us I guess deciding on the menu still to some degree and there's a high likelihood.
That you could -- should be buying local.
Jeff Flock Fox Business Network at a small company today in Chicago that grows vegetables year round.
With the help of -- fish.
What are we talking about here Jeff.
312 opera phonics is the company you're looking at some of the growing and media that they use right now we're actually building -- -- this is -- stockyards neighborhood in Chicago this personal meatpacking plant to turn that into a farmer.
-- we have this is through -- on buying some were growing food indoors here around this thing in these bad DC and -- -- -- ahead and that one out of there if you can.
These tanks are filled with fish and this is sort of the start of the medium yet this is a closed water ecosystem -- -- using fish to grow plants the plants clean the water for the fish.
And the fish provide nutrients for the plants -- gonna say yes no that's at what is that it's that you sets it's a whopping.
This is a nice big sloppy -- -- guards almost the pound rooted for the points about now.
Let's say so the fish not only do you sell that you can sell fish which you then use the the waste essential to the finish.
To grow over here and maybe lord comes over here we take a look at which are grown here -- -- -- -- are -- in my group greens and the plants actually.
Focal point of the business mall near the -- kind of ancillary with regulations and the price the market price but we're doing is going hyper local.
Fresh -- greens and I would get like a lot of restaurants Connell what you see these days say that all locally grown locally so -- these -- him.
Greens that they would buy from the -- and and this is three weeks to grow these things -- only takes three weeks from sees it from scene to -- the harvest.
And so this starts to generate some cash.
And this goes on and all in here.
This is it takes a lot of -- -- -- -- farming we set these systems so we get him up and running and you can really way you take the vegetables and when they Gamal and like this.
Just think do.
On this -- here and their roots are suspended in the nutrient rich water so no soiled.
Artificial sunlight you around -- -- I was gonna say if this.
TV thing doesn't work out for any of us perhaps because this is obviously something that is designed.
For entrepreneurs to get involved and -- earnings.
Your husband and their hiring in other than another company that's hiring period you know that's always get very cool -- that is actually very from Turkey's though.
For now but that's what they've been grown -- local -- Jeff Jeff Flock there live today from Chicago force right ahead of the I guess what we're calling the minute that --
