Graze The Roof—More Rooftop Gardening

by Tom Alexander on March 17, 2009 · 1 comment

grazetheroofIn the heart of San Francisco’s Tenderloin, seven stories up on the roof of the Glide Memorial Church’s offices, is the Graze the Roof Community Garden.
Even in the winter, greens and root crops are being harvested. In the summer almost every empty space on the Graze the Roof garden has growing vegetables, lush and ready to harvest.

The rooftop garden was created with a $10,000 grant from a community organization and has been successful with both adults and kids taking part in raising the plants. Many are learning a new skill by tending the gardens.

Much of the material used in the gardens are scavaged and recylced. Raised beds, built with recycled pallets of wood, and self watering containers both use soil as a medium. But there are various homemade and donated soilless hydroponic systems growing vegetables too.

Gardening workshops are also held on the Graze the Roof.

The number of rooftop gardens springing up around the U.S. is astounding. Almost every day I hear about another story of a rooftop garden in cities both large and small.

Photo credit: Graze the Roof

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