David Guempel, a chef at Café Osage, cuts some herbs from the rooftop at Bowood Farms, an innovative family-owned nursery and garden center at Olive Street and Walton Avenue. Guempel was the owner of the recently closed Zinnia and a former chef at Cafe Balaban. (Jerry Naunheim Jr.)
Here's a creative idea for a rooftop garden that could easily be adapted to demonstrate and sell sub-irrigated grow boxes like the EarthBox. Read the article. I wonder if Bowood Farms in St. Louis even sells them.
A site search on self-watering produced no hits other than one for seed starting. If they don't sell sub-irrigated grow boxes, they should. There is an under served market out there and they have a natural lead in to marketing them.
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