Urban Rooftop Garden Innovations
Urban Rooftop Garden Innovations – Urban Farms at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) operates two rooftop farms on campus to provide food, facilitate research and inspire communities through ecological rooftop farming and food justice. With more than 80 crops in production, the Urban Farm harvests more than 3,000 kilograms (6,631 pounds) of organic produce each season, which is distributed to the community through sales and donations.
City workers are harvesting fields on the former rooftops of the George Vari Engineering & Computing Center. Photo: Urban Land at TMU
Urban Rooftop Garden Innovations
Canada’s largest city has more than 800 green roofs, but only a handful of rooftops are used for food delivery in Toronto. Urban City at TMU wants to increase that number significantly.
Modern Roof Garden Design. In The Ever Evolving Landscape Of Urban…
The first Urban Garden is a large green terrace built in 2004 and is solar powered. … Read the rest