It was nice to see Frieda Lim's Slippery Slope Rooftop Micro Farm here in Brooklyn get some news coverage in the local media.
It is one of the most progressive and unique rooftop gardens in the New York metro area. We will no doubt see it in the news again. Incidentally, Frieda will be with us at the SIP Seminar next Thursday. We already have an interesting group registered. Be sure to attend if you live nearby.
A tree may indeed grow in Brooklyn — but Frieda Lim is using her Gowanus rooftop to grow lemon verbena, echinacia, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant and other delicious produce.
More than that, Lim is aiming to lend a helping hoe to other budding farmers who want to raise crops a few stories above the pavement.
Lim’s Slippery Slope Farm — it is technically in Gowanus but on the edge of Park Slope — will offer design solutions, product development ideas along with solutions for combating aphids and spider mites.
Her method relies on the work of urban food activist and Bay Ridge resident Bob Hyland, whose blog, insideurbangreen.org, advocates sub-irrigation planters as a more efficient and modern way to grow food.
The system is different from traditional gardening, which relies on top-down watering, and instead uses a growing environment that can be any box or container as long as it is outfitted with a water and aeration reservoir at the bottom.
Nice write up!
Posted by: meemsnyc | July 23, 2010 at 08:39 PM
nice post. Sometimes you may need drainage composites in roof gardens
http://www.geosyntheticsworld.com/search/label/Roof%20garden
Posted by: geos | August 28, 2010 at 02:56 PM
Saw Freida on NY1. WTF is a four and twenty blackbird??? She need to worry about eating more veggies than introducing new slang to NYC vernacular
Posted by: Chris | July 02, 2011 at 02:10 AM