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… Bernstein is a member of the Brooklyn startup, “We Are the New Farmers.” … The big winner of the event was We Are the New Farmers. Bernstein crossed paths with Farmers’ Jonas Günther and Michael Udovich in January 2018. Günther had started conducting indoor farming research with funding from New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering in the fall of 2016. He built a farm in the basement of the engineering school, and Udovich joined him, working on that project in the spring 2017.