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million grant for its soon-to-come verticalfarming, hydroponics and plant-based culinary arts programs. The school ran an outdoor hydroponics farm this summer to help work out logistics on the soon-to-be-built indoor verticalfarm. Bergen Community College was one of the grant recipients, receiving a $4.5-million
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