EAT UPfeeding our city + our soul
Urban agriculture has crawled up walls and fire escapes onto rooftops across North America. As we cultivate our rapidly greening skyline, we’re hungry to learn the potential of the blossoming Rooftop Agriculture movement. On March 5th…
sky-high winter greens
While rooftop farms around the country lay fallow for winter, one skyline gem continues to churn out greens. Noble Rot, a restaurant and wine bar in Portland, OR, supports a 3,000 square foot (0.07 acre) farm…
livin’ on the ledge
Today’s quest for local food brings us to Ledge Kitchen & Drinks, a trendy restaurant in Dorchester, MA, 15 miles south of Boston. Chef Uri Abragimovich aims to provide guests with the freshest, most local ingredients possible. The…
the root of it
This year’s Thanksgiving dinner was something to write home about. A menagerie of vegetable dishes flanked my mother’s heavenly, rosemary-infused turkey: roasted bliss potatoes, braised fennel, sautéed Brussels sprouts, butternut squash soufflé. But the one side that got me…
containers and raised beds and pouches, oh my
In many developed nations we are both blessed and cursed with an obscene breadth of consumer choices. With a selection as simple as what type of cereal to buy: low fat, high fiber, whole grain, multi-color… decisions can…
got organic? you betchya.
Chicago has something to brag about. Uncommon Ground, a restaurant on the north side of town, houses the country’s very first certified organic rooftop farm. The farm was founded on the restaurant’s Edgewater location in 2007,…
the value of visibility
Rooftop farms and gardens are intoxicating when you’re up on the roof, but how the heck are you supposed to know they’re there from down on the ground? Visibility is a powerful tool in spreading the word…
West Philadelphia pilot garden
Elderly residents sit on their front stoops watching tattooed hipsters peddle by on fixed-gear bikes. This cultural juxtaposition runs rampant throughout West Philadelphia’s Cedar Park neighborhood, while grit and urban decay provide a strange sense of continuity…
indecent exposure
As a Project Manager for the green roof firm Roofmeadow, I regularly travel around the country to perform construction oversight. In December I had the good fortune of overseeing construction at a hotel in Lower Manhattan,…
a financial giant and a pitchfork
While young metro-agrarian trend setters around the country dive elbow deep into compost, one financial giant wants to get its hands dirty too. This multinational investment banking and securities firm (that prefers to remain anonymous), is constructing…