Urban garden in Hochelega-Maisonneuve, 1940
via AgriUrbain
In but a few years it’s going to be essential for urban dwellers to grow their own food, either on their roof tops or in community gardens and farms around the city in which they live. Here is a rather straight forward (if not a little mundane) video from the American Society of Landscape Architects. Enjoy.
Many Countries (and intelligent local governments…) are now making it mandatory that any new buildings with flat roofs have gardens on them. Such fantastic opportunities lies ahead with the proliferation of this concept.
Hopefully here in the UK the same will happen and this will also be employed retrospectively for existing buildings once it begins to catch on.
Here are some interesting examples we have found:


Urban garden in Hochelega-Maisonneuve, 1940
via AgriUrbain
Guerilla Gardening - Greatest Hits London 2006 - 2009 (by TheGuerrillaGardener)