Rooftop Gardening
Rooftop gardening is growing in popularity, here are some sites with more information:
Inside Urban Green’s page with information about a Rooftop Garden Project in Montreal and elsewhere, in association with the Rooftop Garden Project, liberating spaces for healthy cities.
A NYC resident’s blog documenting her Manhattan Rooftop Garden Project.
Green Roof Growers, another effort to grow heirloom vegetables in the city of Chicago, this blog has lots of great pics and information.
City of Chigago.org includes a page about Chicago’s City Hall rooftop garden, including a downloadable .pdf Guide to Rooftop Gardening.
From City Farmer News, another successful rooftop gardener in Portland, Oregon.
From CityFarmer.org here is a page with several successful rooftop gardens.
From grist.org, a question about rooftop gardening and food safety concerns.
Trade Association – Green Roofs for Healthy Cities North America began as a small network of public and private organizations, founded in 1999, as a direct result of a research project on the benefits of green roofs and barriers to industry development and is now a rapidly growing not-for-profit industry association.
From Scribd, a guide to Edible Rooftop Gardening. (Scribd has free downloadable books on many topics.)