Grow Your Own: Rooftop Farms
MAY 27, 2010
Rooftop farms provide sustenance for urban harvesters and local restaurants.
Along with the recent boom in Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), rooftop farms are starting to look like a good idea as city dwellers seek new ways to remove the distance between themselves and their fresh food sources. Eagle Street Rooftop (via Serious Eats) in Greenpoint, Brooklyn has served as a successful example for a new crop of rooftop farms. The 6,000 square-foot organic veggie farm atop a former factory was installed by Ben Flanner and Annie Novak and designed by rooftop farm installation firm Good Greene. More than just an experiment, the farm supplies 30 different kinds of organic produce for some of the city’s most celebrated restaurants.
The Greenpoint farm was, in part, inspired by the earlier efforts of Gotham Greens, who created the first commercial-scale hydroponic rooftop farm in Jamaica, Queens. Another farm is in the works at the Robert Simon Complex in the Lower East Side. The school plans to plant a 3,000-square-foot vegetable garden up top, under the guidance of World Trade Center memorial designer Michael Arad (via Curbed). You can find out more about rooftop farming from NYC Rooftop Farm Initiative.
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