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
I’m also growing Nasturtioms for the first time this year. They are edible flowers, rob. 🙂
They seem very easy to grow.
That’s pretty awesome. And it’s putting my tiny balcony vegetable garden to shame.
It’s a fruit, dh.
Arkady, I have had home grown ones in salads at people’s homes but never in a restaurant in many years.
And, a radish is one of the true vegetables in that it contains no seeds. Everything with a seed inside is botanically a fruit.
> me no likely farm living in the city. it completely destroys the urban aesthetic.
Chucklehead.
This is GREAT!!!!!!!
hats off to folks like this
I guess the New Yorker is right, that’s why Al Gore flies evreywhere on a gas-gusselling private jet.
This is cool – What, people are only allowed to grow fruits and veggies in the backyard of a brownstone? Good use of space.
Is a pepper a fruit or veggie? It has seeds.
What GP/W too good for the BROOKLYN Botanic Gardens?! Rob, I’ve always enjoyed fresh produce grown by my dad in his Brooklyn backyard.