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Community Rooftop Garden
I recently moved to Toronto and with the move I started working in a new office. About a week after I started at the new office, people jokingly told me to go find the way to get to the roof because they had some kind of patio and garden up there. Well, at the time, we were still in our "breaking in" period, and I had just found out that contrary to what my colleagues had told me...Canadians do NOT like to be called American just because they reside in NORTH America. Anyways, about 2 months ago, the weather got nice for a few days and I decided to find out if there really was anything on the roof because I had noticed that other buildings did in fact have patios on them (including the apartment I live in). So I went looking for a way to get to the roof, and was surprised to find that there wasn't much of a patio, but there was actually something that kind of looked like it could be a garden. Turns out the owner of the building likes gardening and doing things to improve the neighborhood, and has started a garden to grow some flowers and vegetables on the roof (not very successfully). Since then I have gone up to eat lunch on nice days, but hadn't given the garden much thought, until coming onto this site and speaking with people like Nick Heyming. For those of you who don't know about what Nick is doing, please check out his profile and read his blogs. Anyways, 3 days ago I asked the building owners if they would like some help with the garden and I will start with helping them resoil the planters next week :) I'm doing some research now to see what kinds of things we might be able to grow, and I'll upload photos as we make progress.
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Comment by Theodore Burt on April 20, 2010 at 4:12am
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Excellent you are making an effort to learn about garden and rooftop gardening. I have a friend here who took a market gardening class with me has has put in a roof top garden on a building he owns.
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Comment by Nicholas Nagao on April 20, 2010 at 11:12pm
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Uploaded some pictures of the rebirth of the rooftop garden. We're building some new planters, replanting in the old ones, and adding new dirt.
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