The Farm On The Roof

Author : Anastasia Cole Plakias
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780698404113

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The Farm on the Roof by Anastasia Cole Plakias Pdf

The founders of Brooklyn Grange, the world’s largest green rooftop farm, share their inspirational story of changing the world through entrepreneurship. In their effort to build the world’s first and largest commercial green rooftop farm, the founders of Brooklyn Grange learned a lot about building and sustaining a business while never losing sight of their mission—to serve their community by providing delicious organic food and changing the way people think about what they eat. But their story is about more than just farming. It serves as an inspirational and instructional guide for anyone looking to start a business that is successful while making a positive impact. In The Farm on the Roof, the team behind Brooklyn Grange tell the complete story of how their “farmily” made their dream a reality. Along the way, they share valuable lessons about finding the right partners, seeking funding, expanding, and identifying potential sources of revenue without compromising your core values—lessons any socially conscious entrepreneur can apply toward his or her own venture. Filled with colorful anecdotes about the ups and downs of farming in the middle of New York City, this story is not just about rooftop farming; it’s about utilizing whatever resources you have to turn your backyard idea into a sky-high success.

Author : Annie Novak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781607747086

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The Rooftop Growing Guide by Annie Novak Pdf

If you'd like to grow your own food but don't think you have the space, look up! In urban and suburban areas across the country, farms and gardens are growing atop the rooftops of residential and commercial buildings. In this accessible guide, author Annie Novak's passion shines as she draws on her experience as a pioneering sky-high farmer to teach best practices for raising vegetables, herbs, flowers, and trees. The book also includes interviews, expert essays, and farm and garden profiles from across the country, so you'll find advice that works no matter where you live. Featuring the brass tacks on green roofs, container gardening, hydroponics, greenhouse growing, crop planning, pest management, harvesting tips, and more, The Rooftop Growing Guide will have you reimagining the possibilities of your own skyline.

Author : Lauren Mandel
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781550925302

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Eat Up by Lauren Mandel Pdf

From roof to table – urban food has reached new heights. Soaring prices and concerns about chemical-laden fruits and vegetables increasingly drive us to grow our own healthy food close to home. In cities, however, vanishing ground space and contaminated soils spur farmers, activists, and restaurateurs to look to the skyline for a solution. The hunger for local food has reached new heights, and rooftops can provide the space that cities need to bring fresh, organic produce to tables across North America. The first full-length book to focus entirely on rooftop agriculture, Eat Up views this growing movement through a practitioner's lens, explaining: Structural, access, and infrastructural considerations Zoning and building codes Proven growing techniques Business and marketing strategies This graphically rich guide provides inspiration and advice to aspiring growers through photographs of successful rooftop farms and gardens and interviews with industry professionals. Easy-to-use checklists and a decision tree are included to help gauge the viability of each unique rooftop opportunity. Essential reading for home gardeners, entrepreneurs, restaurateurs, policy makers, academics, and designers, Eat Up takes urban agriculture to a whole new level, proving that rooftop farming is not just pie in the sky—it is the future of urban food. Lauren Mandel holds a master's degree in landscape architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor of arts degree in environmental science. She is a project manager and rooftop agriculture specialist at Roofmeadow, where she designs green roofs and oversees green roof and rooftop agriculture projects around the country.

Author : Francesco Orsini,Marielle Dubbeling,Henk de Zeeuw,Giorgio Gianquinto
Publisher : Springer
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319577203

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Rooftop Urban Agriculture by Francesco Orsini,Marielle Dubbeling,Henk de Zeeuw,Giorgio Gianquinto Pdf

This book guides architects, landscape designers, urban planners, agronomists and society on the implementation of sustainable rooftop farming projects. The interdisciplinary team of authors involved stresses the different approaches and the multi-faceted forms that rooftop farming may assume in any context. While rooftop farming experiences are sprouting all over the world the need for scientific evidence on the most suitable growing solutions, policies and potential benefits emerges. This volume brings together existing experiences as well as suggestions for planning future sustainable cities.

Author : Hadley Dyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Urban gardening
ISBN : 155451424X

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Potatoes on Rooftops by Hadley Dyer Pdf

Offers tips and techniques for urban gardening and includes an overview of the how and why of the movement.

Author : Alfred Douglas Edgar,Thomas Arrington Huntington Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Farm buildings
ISBN : IND:30000098308731

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Roof Coverings for Farm Buildings and Their Repair by Alfred Douglas Edgar,Thomas Arrington Huntington Miller Pdf

Author : Mark Gorgolewski,June Komisar,Joe Nasr
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781580933117

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Carrot City by Mark Gorgolewski,June Komisar,Joe Nasr Pdf

Carrot City is a collection of ideas, both conceptual and realized, that use design to enable sustainable food production, helping to reintroduce urban agriculture to our cities. Focusing on the need and desire to grow food within the city to supply food from local sources, the contributions of architecture, landscape design, and urban design are explored. Forty projects demonstrate how the production of food can lead to visually striking and artistically interesting solutions that create community and provide inhabitants with immediate access to fresh, healthful ingredients. The authors show how city planning and architecture that considers food production as a fundamental requirement of design result in more community gardens, greenhouses tucked under raised highways, edible landscapes in front yards in place of resource-devouring lawns, living walls that bring greenery into dense city blocks, and productive green roofs on schools and large apartment blocks that can be tended and harvested by students and residents alike.

Author : Eric Maddern
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9781845075910

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The Cow on the Roof by Eric Maddern Pdf

Every day Shon goes out to plough the fields, while his wife Sian works at home in the farmyard. Shon feels he does all the work, so his wife suggests they swap work for the day. Shon looks forward to an easy time of it, with very little to do, but he is in for a surprise... This well-known European folk tale carries a message for us all: count your blessings, and stick to what you do best!

Author : Charlotte Moore
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141962375

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Hancox by Charlotte Moore Pdf

Hancox is the Tudor hall house in rural Sussex where Charlotte Moore grew up, and where she lives today. It's a time warp where little has changed since her family took it on in 1888. They were a diverse family of doctors and soldiers, liberal politicians and educational pioneers. What they all had in common though was a habit of writing everything down and never throwing anything away. Every cupboard and every drawer is crammed with relics of family history - letters, diaries, sketchbooks, photograph albums, even old shopping lists and chequebook stubs - which together constitute a huge archive of Victorian and Edwardian family life containing fascinating stories of love and jealousy, heroism and defeat, riches and poverty as well as snapshots of the wider world beyond of Hastings, London and the empire. Told with a novelist's vigour, Hancox offers a richly detailed portrait of a vanished way of life: an English country house at the turn of the twentieth century, just before the tragedy of the First World War, with its presiding family, its servants, its farm and its local village.

Author : Surendra N. Kulshreshtha
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781789840490

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Agricultural Economics by Surendra N. Kulshreshtha Pdf

Agricultural Economics - Current Issues is a review of topics related to the economics of agriculture in various parts of the world. It contains a total of seven chapters. These contributions are related to some of the significant current problems facing these regions. The book is divided into four parts. The first part is simply an introduction to the field of agricultural economics. It charts the development of the field from its origin of farm management economics to the current state of a variety of subjects in various parts of the world. In the second section, an issue related to marketing is discussed. This is followed in the third section by an issue related to water resource economics. In the last section the remaining three chapters are devoted to agricultural environment-related topics. All chapters present guidance for policymaking.

Author : Leslie Adatto
Publisher : Leslie Adatto
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780996003605

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Roof Explorer's Guide: 101 New York City Rooftops by Leslie Adatto Pdf

Congratulations! By choosing this book, you've taken the first step toward experiencing New York City from an entirely fresh perspective - from the rooftops. Roof Explorer's Guide: 101 New York City Rooftops is the only guide book that shows you and takes you - to a wondrous variety of New York City rooftops. I'm Leslie Adatto, the New York City roof explorer. I have discovered hundreds of rooftops throughout the boroughs and can't wait to share 101 of my fabulous ones with you. Roof Explorer's Guide: 101 New York City Rooftops gives veteran New Yorkers and visitors alike my personal map to explore a huge variety of New York City roofops.Go to trendy bars and restaurants, take a swim or play some tennis, attend a movie, go to a farm, visit 19th century historical sites, check out a museum or a play, or snooze on a park bench, all on New York City rooftops. I hope the lush photography and well-researched information throughout this book will inspire you to venture out, whether on foot, by bicycle, via subway or anyway, to explore and enjoy 101 New York City rooftops.

Author : Sara J. Wilkinson,Tim Dixon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119055624

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Green Roof Retrofit by Sara J. Wilkinson,Tim Dixon Pdf

A deep understanding of the implications of green roof retrofit is required amongst students and practitioners to make the decisions and take the actions needed to mitigate climate changes. Green Roof Retrofit: building urban resilience illustrates the processes undertaken to develop this new knowledge and thereby embed a deeper level of understanding in readers.Illustrative case studies and exemplars are drawn from countries outside of the core researched areas to demonstrate the application of the knowledge more broadly. Examples are used from the Americas (North and South and Canada), Oceania, Asia and other European countries.The book describes the multiple criteria which inform decision making and how this provides a way forward for making better decisions about green roof retrofit in different countries and climates.

Author : Hazel Edwards
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781743485767

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Hooray! There's a Hippopotamus On Our Roof Having a Birthday Party by Hazel Edwards Pdf

'Only three sleeps to go and then it's my birthday! There's a hippopotamus on our roof eating cake. It's his birthday, too. We are going to have our party together. A jungle party. And all our friends can come in animal costumes.' The hippo is back to celebrate his 30th birthday with a brand-new book! Join him and his friends for a jungle-inspired celebration full of games and lots of jungle-party treats! Download all the things you need for your very own Hippo birthday party here puffin.com.au/hippo

Author : Michael Bell
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271097916

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Farming for Us All by Michael Bell Pdf

"Explores the sustainability of American Agriculture, and possibilities for social, environmental, and economic change that practical, dialogic agriculture presents"--

Author : Ruskin Bond
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780141386775

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The Room on the Roof by Ruskin Bond Pdf

The Room on the Roof is a timeless coming-of-age novel that will resonate with a whole new generation of readers. Written by renowned author Ruskin Bond when he was just seventeen, it is the story of Rusty, a teenage Anglo-Indian boy who is orphaned and has to live with his English guardian in the stifling European quarter of Dehra Dun. Unhappy with the strict ways of his guardian, Rusty runs away from home to live with his Indian friends into the dream-bright world of the bazaar, Hindu festivals and all manner of Indian life. Rusty is enthralled, and is lost forever to the prim proprieties of the claustrophic European community.