Rooftop Garden Feeds Cafe Customers Below

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Rooftop Garden Feeds Cafe Customers Below

Growing Your Greens /Video screen capture We've seen a supermarket growing produce on its roof in London, and Brooklyn looks set to be the home of some massive rooftop farms in the near future. But rooftop agriculture doesn't need to be big, nor does it have to be high tech. Here we see Jon of Growing Your Greens visit Catch A Healthy Habit Cafe in Fairfield, CT where the cafe owners have been growing food on their cafe roof for the customers below. Clearly, the group has started out small. But that's a pretty smart strategy—too many projects burn out after the first year as first-time gardeners get over ambitious and bite off more than they can chew. And clearly, as Jon shows, in the context of a cafe garden, there are some plants (peppers, for example) that will have a hard time contributing much to the demands of the business. But from kale to nasturtiums to herbs, ther...

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