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The Potential of Rooftop Gardening. In a 1993 experiment, Dr. Job Ebenezer, Director for Environmental Stewardship and Hunger Education also demonstrated how fresh, healthy vegetables can be grown in abundance and inexpensively in containers virtually anywhere. I'd like to give credit to Rodale's Organic Gardening Magazine for a wonderful source of information that helped me learn about gardening. I read that Rodale was forced to spend a fortune in legal fees to defend his right of free speech regarding the health benefit of organically grown food..
 

Roof space immediately comes to mind when one considers opportunities for urban agriculture. Rooftops are generally unused spaces, they often have excellent exposure to sunlight and rain water, and they are found in the centre of even the densest urban areas. The initial objective of the project summarised in this report was to explore the economic potential of cultivating these spaces. I have made an effort to explore other issues as well; in fact, I believe that these other issues illustrate the true value of rooftop gardening.

To be sustainable, an agricultural endeavour must conform to the environment of which it is a part. This environment is typically seen as being ecological in scope, but it also has social and economic dimensions. The site of an agricultural intervention must dictate the nature of that intervention, and my rooftop garden is no exception in this regard. This chapter describes the site where the rooftop garden was constructed, and outlines the cultivation plan I developed based on the opportunities it presented.
I was fortunate to have access to the water supply of our building. I connected a hose to a faucet in the building wall and ran it up to the work area. A back-flow device was affixed to the faucet to avoid pressure-related plumbing problems when the elevated hose was turned off.
This project demonstrates how fresh, healthy vegetables can be grown inexpensively in containers virtually anywhere -- at the edges of parking lots; along railroad tracks; on back porches; on rooftops; in patios; in driveways; in vacant lots between buildings; in brown fields or areas where there is a concern about soil pollutants; in areas where soil nutrition is lacking -- just about anywhere there is a bit of space, sun and access to water. These gardens use much less water than the amount needed for conventional row planting in open fields.

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Urban Agriculture - Edible Container Gardens  Poor people can grow their own food in their own neighborhoods. Abundance of fresh, healthy fruits and vegetables can be grown inexpensively in containers virtually anywhere -- at the edges of parking lots; along railroad tracks; on back porches; on rooftops; in patios; in driveways; in vacant lots between buildings; in brown fields or areas where there is a concern about soil pollutants; in areas where soil nutrition is lacking -- just about anywhere there is a bit of space, sun and access to water. In a 1993 experiment, Dr. Job Ebenezer, Director for Environmental Stewardship and Hunger Education also demonstratedhow fresh, healthy vegetables can be grown in abundance and inexpensively in containers virtually anywhere. more



 


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