January 2012
23 posts
winter...pictures coming
i know i have been re-blogging other people’s pictures, but i will post what the roof looks like in the snow soon…getting snow here today…we were able to get a layer of peat down yesterday, topping off trays that were low…we are getting much positive feedback as this urban farming thing takes off across the country, it is amazing how putting plants on our roof is now a “movement”…
comparing nyc urban farms to malmo, sweden
This past summer a couple from sweden came to the roof farm and got quotes and pictures for a book they are doing comparing nyc and a major town in sweden…here is a recent email:
“Our book “Staden som åkermark-hållbar stadsodling i New York och Malmö, or ” - City farming- sustainable farming in New York and Malmö”- contains stories from BK Farmyards, Georgias Rooftop, Compost Green and Compost for Brooklyn- that all together work in different ways to inspire to a more sustainable life in our cities, build food justice and stronger communities. We’ve visited the restaurants Robertas and Bell Book and Candle, the first “roof to table -restaurant”
and also interviewed with madly inspirational Majora Carter. And of copurse, our story starts in Liz Christy Community Garden, New Yorks first community garden that came from the grass root movement, and where it all began.
In Malmo we’re interviewing with local Transition Town initiatives, cityfarmers Mykorrhiza that got a park from the local authorities and made it into a garden, and we’re following how city farming became a strong movement in one of Malmö’s poorest areas Seved. And the whole movement started back in the 90’s, when - inspired by the community garden movement in New York, one single person started a movement that made the first open space garden came into place in Malmö…
We think Malmö has alot to learn from New York- and still the movement is new here in Malmö- even if it has been exploding.
Hopefully this book will inspire many more to learn, and create more food justice and better cities in the future. And of course er hope that you’re gonna enjoy the book - even if this edition is in Swedish- but we DO hope for getting the funding together to make a translation in the next year.”
pretty cool…they are looking to publish at the end of february
stay tuned…
