my question is about smog. what about petrochemicals tainting the food
through smog? for that matter, what about acid rain.
nobody wants to eat food tainted with that stuff. getting rid of pesticides
and herbicides is great but moving production to cities will take more.?
Seriously this is incredible. I’m breathless. You know I have a similar
idea for my own city but I thought it’s was a crazy idea, to start a
rooftop farm, but I see now that’s completely possible. Thank you juste
gave me motivation for change things.?
The Lufa Farms are three rooftop farms located in the busy and energetic
Greater Montreal Area, Canada. These farms have developed a responsible and
sustainable way to deliver fresh food on a daily basis. Once their
vegetables are harvested they are brought to their clients
I like to garden and I own a building similar to the one shown. My
building is an apartment building with a flat roof. Occurs to me that
instead of re-roofing, I should put the cost of doing that towards the
expense of a rooftop greenhouse, assuming that the roof of the greenhouse
is watertight and hail proof. Also an apartment building would have
possible customers living right next to a fresh food source. Plus a
possible labor pool right in the building. ?
Yeah….roof top farming is “great” if you don’t need house insurance. Tell
THAT to your insurance agent and see how fast they’ll come up with
un-insurable things (mostly, your entire house).
If you want to have potted plants, that’s OK. Herbs are OK too (it’s done
in Toronto’s condos roof tops etc, but only that and in limited numbers 🙂
To say one can grow a garden on the roof, it’s false. It is also false to
say that roof tops can feed people in a city! NOTICE that M.H, said that
roof top farming fed the village. There is a huge difference between a city
and a…village!
It’s a GREAT idea but only for shallow rooted plants; it’s very limited
and that should be told first off. The cost of converting roof top into a
“garden” are astronomical!
Unless MY idea of a garden differs from someone else’s idea?
See what I mean?
I don’t say that it’s a hum-bug idea, I just abhor prettying this
particular idea and making more of it, than it really is.
As the saying goes…B.S baffles brains.
Thank you for sharing :-)?
This better than not growing anything but until we get a greenhouse system
that opens up to real sunlight, we will not get vegetables with all of the
nutrients and enzymes that they should have. Someone did a study, Paul
from Back to Eden mentions it and it showed the difference between some 350
to 50 enzymes and nutrients from sun grown tomatoes as compared to
greenhouse grown tomatoes in artificial light.?
Since California has a lot of flat roofs, it would seem that this could
work. But the state would have to issue all sorts of permits on the safety
of these “farms” as we are an earthquake state. And the inspectors for
building & safety would find all sorts of problems, I am sure to prevent
those ‘farms’ from flourishing.?
my question is about smog. what about petrochemicals tainting the food
through smog? for that matter, what about acid rain.
nobody wants to eat food tainted with that stuff. getting rid of pesticides
and herbicides is great but moving production to cities will take more.?
Seriously this is incredible. I’m breathless. You know I have a similar
idea for my own city but I thought it’s was a crazy idea, to start a
rooftop farm, but I see now that’s completely possible. Thank you juste
gave me motivation for change things.?
How rooftop farming will change how we eat: Mohamed Hage at TEDxUdeM?
“autonomous anonymous”?
This is very helpful, I have a research Project on future farming and these
are some good ideas. ?
*Sustainability Storytelling: The Lufa Farms*
The Lufa Farms are three rooftop farms located in the busy and energetic
Greater Montreal Area, Canada. These farms have developed a responsible and
sustainable way to deliver fresh food on a daily basis. Once their
vegetables are harvested they are brought to their clients
Great job, best “Ted Talk” yet in my opinion. All the worlds problems can
be solved with gardens like these.?
I like to garden and I own a building similar to the one shown. My
building is an apartment building with a flat roof. Occurs to me that
instead of re-roofing, I should put the cost of doing that towards the
expense of a rooftop greenhouse, assuming that the roof of the greenhouse
is watertight and hail proof. Also an apartment building would have
possible customers living right next to a fresh food source. Plus a
possible labor pool right in the building. ?
Yeah….roof top farming is “great” if you don’t need house insurance. Tell
THAT to your insurance agent and see how fast they’ll come up with
un-insurable things (mostly, your entire house).
If you want to have potted plants, that’s OK. Herbs are OK too (it’s done
in Toronto’s condos roof tops etc, but only that and in limited numbers 🙂
To say one can grow a garden on the roof, it’s false. It is also false to
say that roof tops can feed people in a city! NOTICE that M.H, said that
roof top farming fed the village. There is a huge difference between a city
and a…village!
It’s a GREAT idea but only for shallow rooted plants; it’s very limited
and that should be told first off. The cost of converting roof top into a
“garden” are astronomical!
Unless MY idea of a garden differs from someone else’s idea?
See what I mean?
I don’t say that it’s a hum-bug idea, I just abhor prettying this
particular idea and making more of it, than it really is.
As the saying goes…B.S baffles brains.
Thank you for sharing :-)?
I am proud this is happening in Montreal!?
looks already like a big farm?
This better than not growing anything but until we get a greenhouse system
that opens up to real sunlight, we will not get vegetables with all of the
nutrients and enzymes that they should have. Someone did a study, Paul
from Back to Eden mentions it and it showed the difference between some 350
to 50 enzymes and nutrients from sun grown tomatoes as compared to
greenhouse grown tomatoes in artificial light.?
Since California has a lot of flat roofs, it would seem that this could
work. But the state would have to issue all sorts of permits on the safety
of these “farms” as we are an earthquake state. And the inspectors for
building & safety would find all sorts of problems, I am sure to prevent
those ‘farms’ from flourishing.?
Thanks for posting! This is great stuff!?
How do we sign up for food? How much does it cost??
Food for thought :)?
Bon dimanche
What if our city’s network of rooftops was a patchwork of farms??
How rooftop farming will change how we eat: Mohamed Hage at TEDxUdeM?