Roof Farm Kale

Recognizing food is medicine a boston hospital puts an organic farm on its roof.

Roof farm kale.

150g country of origin. A little under half goes directly home with patients and the remainder is used for the hospital s cafeteria teaching kitchen and in house farmers market which is held in the lobby every week. Or power up your salad with thesesuperfood. The boston red sox are giving new meaning to the term farm team this season the team s iconic home fenway park debuted fenway farms a garden on the roof of the ballpark producing.

Besides helping meet the growing demand for food production rooftop farms offer many benefits. By nurturing lettuces kale arugula and other vegetative crops they literally make cities greener which is nice. More than a hundred volunteers tend the garden which includes kale collard greens bok choy tomatoes carrots cucumbers peppers eggplant beans squash and a wide variety of herbs. Launching this year altius farms will be the largest vertical aeroponic rooftop greenhouse in the u s.

The rooftop farm will also offer tours educational classes special events and on the job training for veterans and local youth. Kale carrots onions cauliflower eggplants and radishes are all grown in the rooftop plant beds creating over 6 000 pounds of food each year. Superb with olive oil cheese and garlic. They especially like kale grapes plain cheerios whole wheat ritz crackers and blueberries.

The peacocks are often up on the roof of farmer mary s house and will walk down to a low corner and eat right out of your hands at winterpast farm petting zoo in wake forest nc. Late this summer chicago turned a green roof into its first major rooftop farm. Make into hearty soupor stew to warm your soul. The phenomenon of urban farms took root after the second world war to feed a population that was exhausted by years of poverty.

In the kale filled facility at vertical farm startup bowery farming it s a piece of proprietary software that makes most of the critical decisions like w. High above the boston medical center grows a bountiful organic vegetable garden that feeds patients staff and the poor. Additional details root farm s kale i. Will be growing kale collards carrots radishes peppers beans beets cherry.

Singapore root farm s curly kale has bright flavours with hints of sweet pepperynotes. Thank you for supporting a small local farm family animal rescue. In the last few years it has been growing exponentially so much so that locally sourced no longer refers to products that come from the surrounding countryside but in the very place where urban consumers live. But rooftop farms also have an environmentally green or eco friendly impact.