IGrow PreOwned 8/9/19 IGrow PreOwned 8/9/19

A REIT's New Amenity: A CSA Program From A Rooftop Farm

Perhaps most interesting is one of the amenities the REIT is offering: namely an opportunity to join a CSA (community-supported agriculture) program at the largest soil-based rooftop farm in the Mid-Atlantic region

IGrow PreOwned 8/6/19 IGrow PreOwned 8/6/19

Long Island Hospital Creates Unique ‘Farm to Bedside’ Concept With Rooftop Farm

Stony Brook University Hospital has a rooftop farm. It's also used to teach local children about nutrition and gardening

IGrow PreOwned 8/2/19 IGrow PreOwned 8/2/19

Live In Your Own Farm In The Sky In This Plant-Covered Apartment Building

The concept for Farmhouse shows a vision of city living where people are more connected to their food—and get time in nature just by going out to their balcony.

IGrow PreOwned 7/25/19 IGrow PreOwned 7/25/19

Rooftop Farm-to-Table Food Part of Javits Expansion

The new venture will source food from a working farm being built on the roof as part of the center’s massive expansion. Brooklyn Grange will manage the farm and work with the Cultivated culinary team

IGrow PreOwned 7/13/19 IGrow PreOwned 7/13/19

Take In A Farm Above The Borough With A Tour of Brooklyn Grange

If you’ve ever wanted to get a rooftop view of the borough while roaming amidst a bumper crop of herbs, vegetables and other growing goodies, you can get a behind-the-scenes look at Brooklyn Grange this summer

IGrow PreOwned 6/19/19 IGrow PreOwned 6/19/19

Farming In The City

Urban farming could help provide a boost to the region’s food security and safety issues.The traditional farming system, though productive, has serious downsides which include food wastage, polluted ecosystems and significant greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

IGrow PreOwned 6/19/19 IGrow PreOwned 6/19/19

Skyfarm Will Be An “Asset”

City of Melbourne councillors have assured Flinders Wharf residents they have nothing to fear from a 2000sqm “skyfarm” that has been approved for an adjacent car park rooftop at 671-701 Flinders St.

IGrow PreOwned 6/14/19 IGrow PreOwned 6/14/19

Breathing Walls to Rooftop Farms: Cities Get Creative For a Greener Future

From "breathing walls" that recover energy and filter air to urban farms on rooftops, cities around the world are experimenting with creative ways to become carbon-neutral, aiming to make no contribution to global warming

IGrow PreOwned 5/14/19 IGrow PreOwned 5/14/19

Melbourne Gives Green Light To City Skyfarm

Known as the Skyfarm, the project will sit atop a new $450 million development at Melbourne’s Docklands directly overlooking the Yarra River, with a nursery, beehives, eco education centres, a shop, sustainable café and even a live music venue.

IGrow PreOwned 5/13/19 IGrow PreOwned 5/13/19

Urban ‘Farmers’ Plant Acres of Field High Above Streets of New York on Rooftops

High above the sidewalks in one of the dense metropolis’s outer boroughs, though, a group of sustainable farmers have been cultivating a 2.5-acre plot of greens and goodness for locals to consume. And its success bodes well for the future of big cities—and the planet in general

IGrow PreOwned 5/7/19 IGrow PreOwned 5/7/19

Australia’s First Indigenous Rooftop Farm Opens In Eveleigh

What started as an idea drafted during a comedy gig about 12 months ago has become Australia’s first indigenous rooftop farm, right in inner-city Sydney

IGrow PreOwned 4/26/19 IGrow PreOwned 4/26/19

Singapore Makes Room For Allotment Gardens As Urban Farming Takes Root

Singapore now has more than 1,000 allotment gardens in a dozen of its national parks. Each is a raised planter bed measuring 2.5 meters by 1 meter, and can be leased for three years for S$57 ($42) annually

IGrow PreOwned 4/26/19 IGrow PreOwned 4/26/19

Hong Kong Industrial Building Champions Green Spirit By Funding Rooftop Farming Through Recycled Cardboard

At an industrial building in northwest Hong Kong, funds from selling piles of cardboard have been used to seed an unlikely endeavour on a 9,000 sq ft site on its roof – farming radishes and beans

IGrow PreOwned 4/24/19 IGrow PreOwned 4/24/19

New York City’s Best Urban Farms

When most people think of urban farming in New York City, they picture a bearded Brooklynite picking kale from atop a warehouse while drinking a home-brewed beer. And while that person does exist, there are a lot of other farms in this city that don’t fit the stereotype

IGrow PreOwned 4/14/19 IGrow PreOwned 4/14/19

The World's Largest Rooftop Urban Farm Is Set To Open In Paris Next Year

Paris Expo Porte de Versailles welcomes trade fairs and conferences, but it will also become a haven for sustainable farming and biodiversity, thanks to a 14,000 m2 urban farm on future Pavilion 6's roof

IGrow PreOwned 4/13/19 IGrow PreOwned 4/13/19

ComCrop Completes 2nd Rooftop Farm In Singapore

ComCrop, with the success of the Orchard Link farm, set it’s sights on larger scale commercial farming with this new 8,600 square foot “phase 1” system to provide more fresh food to this densely populated island nation. Construction recently completed and initial planting began in late October.

IGrow PreOwned 4/12/19 IGrow PreOwned 4/12/19

UK: Roof Of Community Food Market Will Produce Enough Fresh Vegetables And Herbs To Feed 100,000 In London

The rooftop farm, using 1200 sq m of hydroponics, will produce 60-80 tonnes of mixed vegetables a year – largely leaves such as lettuce and spinach – retailing to diners at around £8 per kilo, compared to around £25 per kilo in supermarket