Perhaps you've watched Rick Bayless on PBS. He is definitely someone I'd like to meet. He reads like one of the real people of the world. Rick is yet another rooftop food producer in Chicago, the rooftop garden capital of the U.S. And yes, it does bug me that this isn't a title for the Big Apple where I live.
Rick runs a popular restaurant in Chicago called the Frontera Grill. What you see above are three of the seventeen EarthBoxes on the restaurant roof. How cool is that. Is there anything more logical than food production on the roof of a restaurant, food market or your kitchen?
Note that Rick also founded the Frontera Farmer Foundation. He is obviously a guy with a social conscience.
This EarthBox application should be countrywide. The only thing holding it back from becoming a reality is publicity. Since there is no support of sub-irrigation technology by the USDA Cooperative Extension Program, buzz will have to come from people outside the horticultural world. The blogosphere would be a good place to start.
The EarthBox and the AeroGarden are two food-producing products with a wide appeal to chefs. The booming growth of the AeroGarden has its roots in TV home shopping and target marketing to chefs.
Again, neither product has had any educational support from the extension program people. What are they thinking? Whatever it is, it’s inside the box thinking. Maybe hole (as in drain) would be a more appropriate word.
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