Aryana Libris

Author : Alternatives and the Rooftop Garden Project
Title : Guide to Setting Up Your Own Edible Rooftop Garden
Year : 2006

Link download : Alternatives_and_the_Rooftop_Garden_Project_-_Guide_to_Setting_Up_Your_Own_Edible_Rooftop_Garden.zip

Standing, from left to right: Sanou Issiaka, Amélie Germain, Sam Makgoka, Alex Hill, Megan Thom and Rotem Ayalon. In front, from left to right: Benjamin Grégoire, Ismaël Hautecoeur and Emmanuel Brunet. After five seasons of gardening and experimenting, the Rooftop Garden project team is happy to share the fruits of its labor with you. The Guide to Setting up Your Own Edible Rooftop Garden comes from our wish to see new gardens and partners take root in the fertile soil of Montreal but also in other parts of the world. By exploring new ways to interact with each other, with the built environment, the urban ecosystem and the food chain, we have discovered that change can happen in a manner that is participative, pleasant and inclusive. This observation comes from designing and participating in different rooftop gardens with the community. Each garden is a unique space that is maintained with care by volunteers from a meals-on-wheels program, meticulously cultivated by seniors, experimented on and brought to life by young urbanites or appropriated by families. Together, we strive for a better world, cities that breathe, a slower pace, sustainable management of resources and a more respectful and ecological way of life. In our opinion, the renewed and infinite amazement that edible gardening brings is an excellent starting point on the path to that better world. The pleasure of discovering how the world that surrounds us works, how things like rain, wind, sun, the seasons, insects, migrations and new varieties of plants are interrelated brings us closer to the land, even from the extraordinary heights of rooftops. A greater understanding of urban ecosystems can only motivate us to cultivate diversity and appreciate complexity. We hope that our humble acts of planting, upkeeping, harvesting, eating and sharing will bring as much pleasure to you as they have brought to our community of gardeners. Ismaël Hautecoeur Project Manager ...