Huffpost ran a really
interesting little piece about Ben Flanner, a New York resident working on establishing urban gardens on rooftops around the city. Motives behind the rooftop gardens, aside from being a great use of space, include growing organic crops locally and selling them to residents and restaurants, reducing carbon footprints by having a local source of vegetation instead of relying on vegetation being trucked in, and keeping the agricultural tradition alive in places you'd least expect. Here's a link to Flanner's site, it's got all kinds of cool stuff. And here's a quick little video showcasing some of Flanner's work in preparation for the 2011 growing year.
This is such a cool fusion of urban and rural life. I'm seriously tempted to hit up my landlord and see if they'll let me start looking in to planting a garden on top of the apartments.
Locally, the new Lightcatcher Museum features a green roof. Although it's more an experiment in ecology than in agriculture,
according to a post on the Herald's Politics Blog. Still, it's pretty damn cool.
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| Picture from the Bellingham Herald's politics blog. |
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| Picture from the Bellingham Herald's politics blog. |
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| Picture from the Bellingham Herald's politics blog. |
