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Here’s their website.  Lufa farms supplies baskets of picture-perfect vegetables, grown with minimal water and without chemicals, to discriminating urban customers. It provides opportunities for high-tech, small-scale businesses. Lufa farms was built and is being operated by these two well-educated and computer-savvy young people. But an additional intangible benefit is that it brings at least one aspect of food production back into the urban environment.  Today’s increasingly urban dwellers have little idea of what it takes to produce the perfect produce they buy.  We see the consequences of that in the declining support for agricultural research and the inability to cut through the regulatory morass surrounding contemporary molecular modification strategies.  Bringing agriculture to the urban environment is an important step toward raising awareness among our urban policy makers – to say nothing of creating employment, decreasing agriculture’s ecological footprint and transporation costs, and delivering fresh produce year round.