How this Rooftop Grew 20,000 lbs of Food 

Can you imagine if every new flat-roofed building was required to have a roof like this? It could change everything.

It'll take a long time for the snail and slugs to find your veggies! What a great project!

There are many big problems in this world, but the solutions are immense too.

That is something I wish to see more of

It's nice to see another tactic to get around the current method of remote industrial food production that isn't working.

This is what we need, not just in urban area, even in every neighborhood of a town. Food insecurity is a real issue, and this movement is one of the best way to solve it.

Love this! It cools and stores energy as food, creating green spaces, cleaning the air! Imagine how the city looks from above covered in these beautiful green roofs!

Your stories have the best messages.

OOOOOO That's the thinnest soil garden I've seen yet! That glassboard timelapse showing the irrigation was so cool!

Impressive work by these rooftop farmers.

As solarpunk as it gets! 👏

Amazing video, if all cities could embrace this our world would be a better place.

I’ve done several college projects on rooftop and community gardens (with a focus on urban food deserts) because I’m in love with this solution! It’s great to finally see someone use that idea and do something to bring it to life!

So impressive

I get so excited every time I see one of these videos. There genuinely isn’t any other channel that I get as excited about as this one. Thank you so much!

Very impressive, well done.

Amazing inspiration. Love to see the change!

Wow! Amazing.

Thank you for this episode! I pass by this building all the time, and I never understood how it worked. I love your content, and especially your visual explanations through art. You are very talented.

Thankyou for sharing this Andrew--these people are simply wonderful.

Thank you for sharing the wisdom of these wonderful people!

Wow - I'm blown away! This is awesome... this is what cities should be like. This is very inspiring. Thank you. Question: as long as the roof can support the weight, isn't it better to use containers or self contained raised garden beds? One thing not mentioned: who owns the building (residential or commercial office?) - I'm sure employees can reduce work stress & increase productivity by helping out during work breaks, or just sit in amongst nature throughout the day. The green roof at Thammasat University in Bangkok feeds the campus plus community. Both these projects shines a light on quality urban living for all, irrespective of income level (good food is for everyone). Much blessings to all involved. I hope this catches on in every community in every city.

Seems pretty expensive but the one planning it is a genius

How do you find all this amazing projects!!! I got amazed with the one located in the South of Spain, thanks for all the inspiration ❤

This actually made me spontaneously start crying. I’m so glad someone is doing this ❤️ 🙏

Yeah Allen you did it again!!!!!! Great showing. Peace to you homie and much love

it also reduces the cooling cost for the penthouse dwellers

Good idea, well done...

The garden is AMAZING!! It’s so wonderful to see your dreams realized, Ben & Rupa; congratulations!!! 🌱

Thanks for sharing this wonderful project 💚👍

If they implemented this in nyc this would improve the quality of life and bring a much needed Renaissance to the city.

A spark of light in a time that seems so dark.

Wow!

Beautiful. Thank you!

Great concept! But here are a few issues not addressed: - If you take food out, you will have to haul nutrients in to replace it. Composting scraps helps keep some stuff on site, but the rest is gone. - The city pollution surrounding crops might not be the best idea. - There's no rain catchment, so most of the water is treated city water. - If power gets interrupted, you aren't hauling anything in or out. - I hope they have at least some worms up there. Not sure since they do thermal composting. Perhaps adding rabbit hutches will more wisely make use of the scraps, feeding people healthy meat while fertilizing the soil.

im so excited for this :) THANK YOU!!!!!

This is amazing

This level of sanity blows my mind! Next: the laundry waste water will be recycled to water the garden at the top. Next: the shower water. Next and next and next. It is so sane it is funny!

Wow! Amazing and inspiring! Everything is so well said. So many great quotes in there!

Amazing and impressive! 😱

Awesome, there is hope for the present and future, thanks for sharing this information.

I've always thought, why don't roof tops for all buildings have either Solar/Farms/Greens/Parking... This video answered it... and it always went over my head... you have to plan the building around it. This probably kills my idea since the cost might be much higher than the owner/renters want to pay. I wonder if there is another way... Maybe the Solar since it's lighter... anyway...

Way to go people!!! Andrew, need more places like this.

Great job guys. How big can we dream? How happy do we want to be. Abundance!

Beautiful. Love that there's the flowers along the pathways, and a natives section. This isn't some hippie out there thing, as Rupa said, this needs to be replicated everywhere. It needs to be common.

This is an incredibly great idea! 👊🏻🌻👊🏻

This is beyond awesome 🎉

This is AMAZING! ❤

the amazing part is they provide the blueprint on how to do this. Now, this is what I call as a movement. Amazing video as always, my man.

Great stuff. Thanks for sharing

Beautiful!

THIS MUST GO VIRAL!! ❤PLEASE SHARE❤ my daughter wants to be a gardener and I shared it with her 🥰

Wonderful. YWCA in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada has a rooftop garden and last I heard they donated the produce to people with food insecurity.

so inspirational! another great video

Great video love your work! ❤

Wonderful! AND BEAUTIFUL TOO!

Using this method to transfer heat from roof shingles to vegetable produce while also cooling the house area down beneath is a great concept I hope to be apart of for southern and heat stricken environments. Let alone the pest resistance from new elevation, the water absorbtion(less roofing maintenance from mold or water build up) and also heat damage aswell all while saving money growing food. This is something we can implement for family house hold. Not a market style but a barrier bed if you will to have some crops while maintaining an energy efficient home cooling method naturally. Just pinning this here since I don’t have a good journal yet haha awesome video!!! 🤙🤙🤙

wow, great work folks

this is truly awesome. i love it.

AWESOME Rooftop ya have here Andrew, loving this project andit would be so COOL to do this here in central Mexico, thank you for sharing, 👍and checking the link you provide. 🤠

I like this so many are going hungry needlessly. Thanks for sharing

Impressive project.. 2:00 how much does that additional engineering and construction adds to a typical cost of the building (in x% added cost).

I ❤️ Urban Farmers!

"The quality is straight market value...." this sounds like he's talking about something else..... but nah really though, this is amazing and definitely the future. I can't wait to see more like this for soo many reasons!

It’s also important to remember there is a value proposition (if society chooses to recognize it) - eating healthily has been proven to prevent or reduce severity of chronic illness. So the reduction in cost of treatment of such medical issues as a result of healthy eating would more than offset the cost of operating urban farms such as this.

Its amazing what you can do if money is no object.

This system might actually see some additional benefits from co mingling some solar arrays. Partial shade on plants throughout the day and energy generation are a win win.

We need more rooftop gardens all over!!

Amazing and impressive work!

More rooftop everything!!! So underrated.

These people give me hope for the future.

On top of all of these amazing benefits, how much does it contribute to controlling the climate of the building? With that much soil on top it almost feels like the building is slightly underground. The sides of the building I'm sure still get a lot of heat but the direct top seems quite insulated especially during the summer months.

you should do a video on lufa farms in montreal, they have 4 huge greenhouses on the roof of industrial and commercial buildings

Aloha, this should be taught in the public schools for fresh food for children's lunches at every grade level. Teach a child to be a farmer and then everyone wins.

I managed a rooftop farm for over a year, compared to normal market garden farming it's a lot harder!

Impressive!!!!

the gardener in me loves this. The facilities manager side of me hates this.

This will be an ingenious idea for people to do if they're living in food deserts in the US. And if Bill closer to supermarkets it can reduce the time and transportation cost.

Awesome concept!!❤

Solarpunk enjoyers are enjoying.

"This is the way." -Din Djarin

Totally cool 😊

glad they thought about planting some native plants to help the local pollinating insects, including native bees, which are the ones in trouble

Great educational Inspiration video as Always. Thank you❤ salam from malaysia

Agro-pioneers 👏👏👏

This would be a great link for Mykl's capstone course, particularly the engineered substrate.

If cities changed their building regs to have this design on all flat roof buildings just think of the difference it would make.

I love this

yeat another great video! thank you

Imagine if this happened across the nation. Or across the who world. The amount of forest we would save. And green cooling to cities. Food security. It would be the dawn of a new era.

Wonder if anywhere has looked at making a first and second roof level. First level for AC units that has the second roof on top of it providing shade with open sides and some port holes through roof for airflow and then the second roof level is the garden that sucks up the heat and makes food.

Do a video on Chicago floating Garden .

Bet you could end up with new Employment Opportunities.

How does this project economically sustain itself, was hoping to hear details of that ?

You can quantify the hummingbird, bees, fresh organic veggies according to the system/language the investors recognize. There's the quantity (20K pounds of food), improved nutrition of home grown food, air quality improvement, importance of bees to the ecosystem (hummingbirds and other pollinators too), etc. There is research available which has already begun to quantify the improvement in health from good nutrition on children's ability to succeed academically, how access to food resources supports communities in other ways, and many articles available in the field of ecopsychology re: the positive affects of being in nature/reducing stress and how that increases health, productivity, quality of life, and more

THIS IS SO DOPPPPEEEE

should we be concerned with like smog contamination on and in the leafy greens with this type system? They’re downwind from SF

Need stronger rooves which require a bit more material so there is a slight drain of sustainability, there. Especially when it rains, the roof will take on a lot of water weight. And each rooftop farm will need to be actively cultivated to make that additional structural mass worth it.

the question is: Why isn't this already established everywhere? at least it is the future of cities.

Brilliant idea :) But how many owners of new buildings will be willing to pay the additional cost for the stronger roof (quite a lot of money)? You probably will also need an external staircase/elevator for access. At least my company could never allow strangers (the gardeners/customers) to walk through their secured office areas.