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A wall of lettuce was rolled aside to make way for rows of colorful edible flowers as Selma Davis looked through her hydroponic farm like a librarian confidently sifting through shelves of books.
She picked a piece of bright green arugula.
“Give that a try. It is the most unbelievable arugula,” Davis said. “It’s spicy because it’s older.”
The bushels of arugula are among dozens of greens grown vertically within a large shipping container dropped by a crane on St. Helena Island farmland. On the inside, the 320-square-foot structure is high tech, using water to produce large yields of pesticide free greens and vegetables through a method called hydroponics.