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Post Office Workers Grow Vegetables, Breed Chickens On Paris Rooftop "Farm"

Rooftop farming has boomed in the past years from New York to Tokyo via London and Paris.

By 2020, the French capital will host more than 100 hectares (0.39 square mile) of rooftop gardens and planted walls, the Paris City Hall said. Of this, one third will be devoted to urban farming.

IGrow PreOwned 9/28/17 IGrow PreOwned 9/28/17

Boston Medical Center Rooftop Farm Concludes First Season

Close to 1,800 pounds of crops were harvested from the rooftop farm in June 2017. BMC’s Preventive Food Pantry received more than 960 pounds of the first yield, and the hospital’s kitchens received 830 pounds, ensuring the food is widely distributed to cafeterias across campus and that it is used in patients’ meals.

IGrow PreOwned 9/25/17 IGrow PreOwned 9/25/17

Green City Growers Honored Globally, Nationally And Locally With Five Awards

"In nine years of operating, we have grown 175,000+ pounds of organic produce and engaged over 7,500 people, on less than two acres of space combined," says Jessie Banhazl, CEO and Founder of GCG. "To have this work recognized is incredibly heartening for everyone at Green City Growers."

IGrow PreOwned 9/22/17 IGrow PreOwned 9/22/17

Paris Embellishes Skyline With Organic Rooftop Farms

Aéromate is currently setting up a 180-square-metre farm, also on the roof of real estate group Tishman Speyer, at Place de la Bourse in central Paris, and is planning for a third commissioned by the City of Paris at the nearby Place de la République.

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Plants In The Sky

RATP, which is a metro operator located in Place Lachambeaudie in the 12th arrondissement (a middle class district east of Paris), has become one of the first companies to place a commercial farm on top of its roof.

IGrow PreOwned 9/14/17 IGrow PreOwned 9/14/17

Epic 25,000 Square Foot Garden Opens on Rooftop of Montreal Supermarket

Located in the Saint-Laurent borough of Montreal, IGA Extra Famille Duchemin plans to sell the food it grows on the supermarket’s roof, which will include a variety of 30 different fruits and vegetables including lettuce, peppers, herbs, and tomatoes. It will also support eight Alveole bee hives with the intention of producing an estimated 600 jars of honey to the shelves.

IGrow PreOwned 9/6/17 IGrow PreOwned 9/6/17

Surbana Jurong Unveils 'Floating Ponds' that Could See Farms In Parks, Rooftops

A closed-loop farming system, the Floating Ponds tap solar energy to grow algae on rooftops. The algae is then used to feed the fish, and nutrient-rich water from the tanks can be used to grow vegetables. More than 90 per cent of the water in fish tanks is recycled, reducing the need to top up fresh water.

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7 Ways Cities Are Transforming Urban Rooftops

According to Steven Peck of the Toronto-based non-profit Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, “The roofscapes of our cities are the last urban frontier—from 15 percent to 35 percent of the total land area.” And they can offer much more than just a pretty view. For example, rooftops can provide room to grow food, build affordable housing , and green our cities, to name a few.

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Hippie Amenities With a High-End Twist

Just as Birkenstocks and bee pollen have come back in style, so have crunchy lifestyle concepts, from yoga and meditation to composting and home fermentation.

IGrow PreOwned 8/27/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/27/17

The Inner-City Apartment Revolution: Think Rooftop Vegie Patches And Beehives

Each apartment was allocated its own vegie patch, part of an extensive rooftop garden that's home to a productive beehive. A blackboard is used to advertise surplus produce to residents. Climbers planted just three years ago thrive along the tensioned chains that line the north elevation, filtering sunlight inside.

IGrow PreOwned 8/24/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/24/17

Montreal Supermarket Opens Up A Huge Rooftop Garden

Richard Duchemin, the owner of an IGA supermarket in Saint-Laurent in Montreal, was informed by the city he would have to add a green roof to the 25,000 square-food building he owned and he embraced the idea while taking this a step further.

IGrow PreOwned 8/23/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/23/17

Lean Plate Club Blogger Sally Squires On The Rooftop Farming Trend

In D.C., there’s the equivalent of about an acre of rooftop farming spread out across the city, overseen by an outfit called Up Top Acres.

IGrow PreOwned 8/22/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/22/17

Montreal Supermarket Opens Huge Organic Rooftop Garden

What’s interesting about this garden is that the vegetables are grown using soil, rather than the hydroponic systems that are more commonly encountered on rooftops (like the amazing set-up at the Dizengoff Center in Tel Aviv).

IGrow PreOwned 8/20/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/20/17

Canadian Retailer First Of Its Kind To Install Rooftop Garden

The project is managed by Ligne Verte (The Green Line) and has a year-round fulltime staff of two and a six-month contract position to supplement busier times. “It’s the largest commercial rooftop garden in Canada,” says Tim Murphy of Ligne Verte.

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Rooftop Farms In Gaza Provide Lifeline To The Community

The current model, designed and built by Palestinians, involves recycled plastic and wood being used to create garden beds, which are then planted with seeds from local farmers.

IGrow PreOwned 8/19/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/19/17

Atop a Parking Garage in a Staten Island Residential Development, an Urban Farm Builds Community and Thrives

Empress Green Inc. is an urban farming business specializing in organic food production, education, and consulting. Bates and her husband, Asher Landes, started the company in 2016, shortly after moving into the residential development Urby, a 500+ apartment complex that sits on the north shore of Staten Island, New York.

IGrow PreOwned 8/17/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/17/17

A Nonprofit Farms Rooftops of Nation’s Capital with Triple Bottom Line in Mind

“We’re a nonprofit landscaping company but instead of mowing lawns we build gardens and maintain gardens for residential, commercial and community partners,” says Thomas Schneider, Executive Director of nonprofit Rooftop Roots.

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Boston Medical Center Urban Farm Serving Up Veggies To Patients

"We thought it'd be a great idea to have local and healthy food," said David Maffeo, senior director of Support Srvices at BMC. He was one of the people who came up with the idea of the garden.

The vegetables go directly to the hospital's food pantry and demonstration kitchen, as well as to the hospital's cafeterias and inpatient population.

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Rooftop Farm Puts Ryerson In Good Stead

Ryerson is one of a handful of Canadian universities to have a rooftop farm.

IGrow PreOwned 8/4/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/4/17

Indoor Farming Plus Made In USA LED Grow Lights: Profile 1.8

Here is a great example of an urban farm with greenhouse locations on rooftops of New York City and Chicago.

Post Office Workers Grow Vegetables, Breed Chickens On Paris Rooftop "Farm"

Boston Medical Center Rooftop Farm Concludes First Season

Green City Growers Honored Globally, Nationally And Locally With Five Awards

Paris Embellishes Skyline With Organic Rooftop Farms

Plants In The Sky

Epic 25,000 Square Foot Garden Opens on Rooftop of Montreal Supermarket

Surbana Jurong Unveils 'Floating Ponds' that Could See Farms In Parks, Rooftops

7 Ways Cities Are Transforming Urban Rooftops

Hippie Amenities With a High-End Twist

The Inner-City Apartment Revolution: Think Rooftop Vegie Patches And Beehives

Montreal Supermarket Opens Up A Huge Rooftop Garden

Lean Plate Club Blogger Sally Squires On The Rooftop Farming Trend

Montreal Supermarket Opens Huge Organic Rooftop Garden

Canadian Retailer First Of Its Kind To Install Rooftop Garden

Rooftop Farms In Gaza Provide Lifeline To The Community

Atop a Parking Garage in a Staten Island Residential Development, an Urban Farm Builds Community and Thrives

A Nonprofit Farms Rooftops of Nation’s Capital with Triple Bottom Line in Mind

Boston Medical Center Urban Farm Serving Up Veggies To Patients

Rooftop Farm Puts Ryerson In Good Stead

Indoor Farming Plus Made In USA LED Grow Lights: Profile 1.8

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