IGrow PreOwned 7/11/18 IGrow PreOwned 7/11/18

Belgian Supermarket Starts Serving Homegrown Produce From Rooftop Garden

Shoppers in the Brussels neighborhood of Ixelles are going green and eating clean as the Boondael Delhaize supermarket sells produce grown on its own roof, without the use of pesticides or preservatives.

IGrow PreOwned 6/30/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/30/18

Urban Bee Colony Arrives Atop Restaurant In Downtown Appleton, WI

While Appleton has allowed beekeeping inside the city limits since 2015, it took additional permitting to allow bees in the business district. Appleton’s first downtown apiary is on the roof of the CopperLeaf Hotel, which is attached to the restaurant.

IGrow PreOwned 6/29/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/29/18

New York: From A Convention Center’s Roof, ‘Walk-Off Vegetables’

Mr. Steel is planning a farm in the sky, on the roof of the extension being built at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on the Far West Side of Manhattan, where he is not only the principal proselytizer for urban agriculture but also the president and chief executive.

IGrow PreOwned 6/26/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/26/18

Rethinking Rooftops

Rooftop farming is intensive agriculture using engineered soil and irrigation on building roofs. Commercial rooftop farming is an emerging practice at the intersection of agriculture and urban planning, where economic and environmental returns are equally important.

IGrow PreOwned 6/26/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/26/18

Belgium: ECLO Produces Micro-Vegetables At Abattoir’s

So from now on the Abattoir site hides two producers of microgreens or micro-vegetables: BIGH in the greenhouses on the FOODMET’s roof, and ECLO in the cellars next to the mushroom-growing company “Le Champignon de Bruxelles”.

IGrow PreOwned 6/23/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/23/18

Shepherding Vegetables From Roof to Restaurant

We grow produce on the roofs of two buildings in New York City, one atop Building 3 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the other in Long Island City in Queens. My workspace on top of the Standard Motor Products Building on Northern Boulevard in Long Island City has a 360-degree bird’s-eye view of all five city boroughs.

IGrow PreOwned 6/20/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/20/18

Urban Agriculture Startup Gotham Greens Closes $29 Million Round of Funding

The Brooklyn-based urban agriculture startup has closed a $29 million Series C financing round, bringing its total equity funding to $45 million.

IGrow PreOwned 6/20/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/20/18

The Green Roof Revolution Spreads to Australia

Green roofs are an accepted part of modern buildings in Europe, where their use has become mandated by some city and national governments. They are commonplace in the Austrian city of Linz, where green roofs are required on all new residential and commercial buildings with rooftops larger than 100sqm

IGrow PreOwned 6/17/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/17/18

‘Worlds First’ Development In Melbourne’s East Has Farm On Shopping Centre Roof

Frasers Property has created what it calls a “world first” mixed-use development in the suburb of Burwood, with a focus on lessening the impact of development and making each new building have a net positive effect on the environment.

IGrow PreOwned 6/15/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/15/18

Hong Kong: Very MK Rooftop Farm – Now Closed

Very MK Rooftop Farm was founded on April 2014 on the 6th-floor rooftop of an apartment building in Mong Kok.

IGrow PreOwned 6/15/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/15/18

Belgian Start-Up Plans 150 Urban Roof Top Farms

Belgian start-up Peas&Love has secured 1.2 million euro in investments to develop 150 urban farming projects... on rooftops. Currently, the company has developed two urban rooftop farms in Brussels and two in Paris.

IGrow PreOwned 6/5/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/5/18

BIGH Raises €4.3m For Largest Urban Rooftop Farm In Europe

The startup, a developer and operator of urban farms in aquaponics, raised €4.3 million ($5.1 million) from a range of investors to fund the construction of a series of aquaponic farms in the heart of major European cities.

IGrow PreOwned 5/19/18 IGrow PreOwned 5/19/18

Urban Farming In Bethesda Provides New Meaning For Locally Grown

Just a few years ago, Bethesda residents would find a standard strip mall at 11580 Old Georgetown Road in North Bethesda.

IGrow PreOwned 5/5/18 IGrow PreOwned 5/5/18

Europe’s Largest City Farm Built On Rooftop In Brussels

The "Ferme Abattoir", the first city farm built by Building Integrated GreenHouses (BIGH), has opened on the roof of Foodmet, the new food hall of the Abattoir site in Anderlecht, Brussels.

IGrow PreOwned 4/30/18 IGrow PreOwned 4/30/18

Can We Make Green Roofs More Biodiverse?

A study of decades-old German green roofs found that they don’t support a wide range of animal and plant life. But researchers and designers are trying to change that.