The Rooftop Gardening Source

Urban agriculturalists Keith Agoada (Sky Vegetables and Rooftop Gardening Source), Dr. Mike Nichols, Anthony Foo, Ms. Morag Gamble, and Geoff Wilson will be presenting at the this half day conference. Find out more at the Green Roofs Australia Website

The Rooftop Gardening Source will provide you with more information about the speakers and the urban agriculture conference in the coming days.

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Are you a rooftop farming guru interested in spreading the love of growing veggies on the roof? Well now is your chance! We don’t care what your technique is, we just want to hear from you.

Email Keith@skyvegetables.com

On top of the biology building at Columbia’s Barnard College in Manhattan is a greenhouse. This botany greenhouse, donated by Arthur Ross and Family features a diverse collection of plants from all over the world. While produce cultivation isn’t its primary concern, there are several species being grown at this greenhouse. The garden has several varieties of hot peppers, Mexican avocado and the exotic Buddhas Hand Citron seen below.

Find Out more at the Barnard Website

Eli Zabar’s grocery store and restaurant in Manhattan is a prime example of using urban rooftop space for agriculture. This roof has commercial-size production greenhouses filled with raised beds planted in greens and herbs and tomatoes. Fig trees in planters are lined up sporadically along the edge of one rooftop. All vegetables and fruits produced in these greenhouses are sold in the grocery store and restaurant below.

http://www.elizabar.com/vinegar.html

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Want to learn more about this project?

http://www.zeek.net/612ableman/

The four-floor, 132,000-square-foot facility creates an academic quadrangle on the southwest corner of the Monroe Park Campus. Science and math faculty – as well as education professors who prepare future science teachers – will be within steps of one another’s classrooms and laboratories. The facility contains exciting new learning spaces including seven classrooms, two lecture halls, computer labs, and a student study lounge – all equipped with state-of-the-art multimedia technology.

The life sciences building features 17 undergraduate instructional laboratories. In addition to general biology and anatomy laboratories the building offers specialty laboratories for advanced courses. Those include genetics, molecular biology, bioinformatics, ecology, environmental science, botany, physiology and microbiology.

A rooftop greenhouse is a research-grade facility that can control humidity, temperature and light. The 3,000-square-foot greenhouse supports a pesticide-free room and three environments simultaneously: desert, mild climates much like Central Virginia and tropic.

http://www.vcu.edu/lifesci/facilities/fac_eugene.html

In 2003, ABC renovated a largely abandoned, dilapidated warehouse on East 126th Street in East Harlem to create its newest vibrant children and family center, Echo Park.

the centerpiece of this rooftop recreation and learning space will be a large self-sustainable, solar-heated greenhouse. This greenhouse will add an entire rooftop classroom and laboratory in which children and their families will grow food and where they will learn life-long lessons of good nutrition, respect for the Earth, the dangers of global warming and a responsible relationship with the planet. It will demonstrate that even the most vulnerable child can be a world leader and take small steps toward ensuring a healthy future for children everywhere.

http://www.a-b-c.org/rooftop-project.htm