EAT UPSandy beets
For quite some time now climate change experts have warned of doomsday scenarios with harsh storms, flooding, and general chaos. We’ve all heard the predictions, but no one was prepared for what Superstorm Sandy brought to…
commercial row farming at its finest
Check out this amazing Huffington Post video on Brooklyn Grange, produced by Damiano Beltrami in 2011. The shortie features the rooftop farm’s Head Farmer and President, Ben Flanner.
from slaughterhouse to rooftop farm
Strutting through Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood, the re-purposed stockyard may seem like business as usual. Look up, and you’ll quickly realize that one of these buildings is not like the others. Set within one…
Microsoft reaches new heights of freshness
The technology news site GeekWire reported yesterday that Microsoft may be in the market for rooftop greenhouses at the company’s Redmond campus. The technology giant is in preliminary talks with UrbanHarvest, a Seattle-based rooftop farming startup company, to…
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,…
a retrofit, retrofit?
In the green roofing world we recognize two types of green roofs: those built on new construction, and those built atop existing buildings. The latter is known as a “retrofit.” When considering a retrofit, a structural…
the buzz.
If you mentioned rooftop farming a few years ago, most people would think you were crazy. But now that rooftop farms and gardens have taken root across the country, more and more people are joining the…
who are these people, anyway?
Rooftop farms and gardens are sprouting up in cities across the country. Restaurants, community groups, families, and individuals are enjoying the bounty, but who the heck is up there growing all this food? Lots of people…
“lettuce” in – it’s cold out here!
As your asparagus lies low waiting for spring, it has plenty of time to fantasize about warmer soil. Jump up to a rooftop, and this fantasy could be closer to reality than your vegetables have ever dreamed….
that is one hot potato.
To the newbie, designing and building a rooftop farm may seem like a cakewalk. What’s the big deal? You just plop a regular farm on top of a building and it’s business as usual, right? Wrong….