Thread: Farm to Flight. Jet Blue Parners in Farm near JFK

JetBlue Airways has announced that it's teaming up with Terra Chips to open the world's first-ever blue potato airport farm at JFK.
The 24,000-square-foot "T5 Farm" will house up to 3,000 crates of plants producing potatoes, herbs and produce, including arugula, beets, mint and basil.
Located pre-security on the departures level of Terminal 5, the plan is for the farm to produce food items that will make their way into JetBlue plane cabins as well as some of Terminal 5's restaurants.
The farm will produce 1,000 pounds of blue potatoes per harvest, with the goal being for some of those potatoes to wind up in a bag of Terra Blues chips. For perspective, JetBlue distributed 5.7 million bags of Terra Blues across its fleet last year.
"An airport seems like an unexpected place for a farming experiment, but what better way to explore JetBlue's role in the food cycle than to harvest right in our own backyard at JFK," JetBlue's head of sustainability Sophia Mendelsohn said in a statement. "Our customers expect T5 to offer them unique experiences."