Try This Green(point) Roof on for Size
How cool is this: Husband-and-wife green roof architects Chris and Lisa Goode starting planning this rooftop garden atop a warehouse in Greenpoint last December, enlisting the help of an aspiring urban farmer and a planting specialist from the New York Botanical Garden along the way. And so far the results are very encouraging, according to…
How cool is this: Husband-and-wife green roof architects Chris and Lisa Goode starting planning this rooftop garden atop a warehouse in Greenpoint last December, enlisting the help of an aspiring urban farmer and a planting specialist from the New York Botanical Garden along the way. And so far the results are very encouraging, according to an article this week from New York Magazine. Corn, radishes, lettuce and peppers have all been planted, and the yield thus far is being snapped up by such locavore-friendly restaurants like Marlow & Sons and Anella. Great stuff.
This Is a Roof [New York Magazine]
Photo by Lucas Foglia
randolp, you’ve posted here 3 x with nothing but criticism of others. Why don’t you add something for a change. This is why people have such disdain for you. You’re about as useful as tits on a boar.
Greetings from London!
Anyone have any thoughts about whether the tomatoes I am growing in my yard will be toxic? They are in a raised bed but the bed was there before I moved in and I have no idea about the purity of the soil in it. I also have some in a pot on my deck so I have some that I know I can eat but I will be sad if I can’t eat all the tomatoes that are growing in the yard.
Heather- why is the locovore movement unrealistic? I’m sure they have had to address the problems of gardenig on a roof, but urban gardening is a necessity, I think, for the future and some of the ideas for vertical farming are very exciting. As far a contaminated soil- rooftop gardens bring in new soil- they aren’t digging up back yards and empty lots.
As far as that goes, anything grown in the earth is subject to contamination of one kind or another. No matter where its grown.
11217 stop being a drama queen. i dont make “innapropriate comments” all i did was state my distaste for rural aesthetics. that is all. people yammer on and on all the time about they dont like new construction’s aesthetics and prefer old brownstones, but panic on MSN if someone comments about their distaste for how something else looks.
*rob*
BX girl,maybe the containers you had were too small, you may have gotten them too late in the season for much vegatative growth before flowering and fruit production starts.
i just saw this last night so i haven’t fully read the whole website yet:
http://leahgauthier.com/sharecropper/?page_id=8
Leah Gauthier, artist:
“I am stitching together a working micro farm, (total size yet to be determined) for one growing season, from parcels of donated land or growing spaces, located in assorted environments in each of the five borroughs around the city. Possible sites include, private residences, office buildings, schools, small business, non-profits, hospitals, galleries, museums, community gardens, government facilities, and vacant lots. Working under a traditional sharecropper agreement, rent will be paid with a portion of my harvest, and the balance shared with local soup kitchens.”
“ugh fine. ive changed my mind. it’s a wonderful beautiful thing and there is something wrong with me. pass the pitchfork.
*rob*”
and you don’t even have the balls to stand up for yourself. PL of the day.
Ragin…I was going to post a snarky comment about that but I read the story first to make sure it indicated that they hired an engineer to assess the loads; which they did.
How long before that roof collapses?