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The Rooftop Garden Project
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The Rooftop Gardening Project is an innovative partnership between Alternatives and the Santropol Roulant, a Montreal-based community organisation. Together we are making widespread rooftop gardening a reality in Montreal and around the world. Our novel soil-less gardens empower urban residents to produce their own food, green their neighbourhoods and build healthy communities.
This summer, Alternatives, Santropol Roulant and a range of other partners will continue to operate our major demonstration garden on the roof of the University of Quebec’s TéléUniversité (TelUQ) building. This 500 square meter garden is situated in the heart of the densely populated Plateau Mont-Royal neighbourhood. It will be coordinated and maintained by Santropol Roulant volunteersto provide vegetables for their meals-on-wheels service.
The demonstration garden is also a promotion and education centre for community members and volunteers. Our team delivers workshops in the garden, empowering participants to build similar gardens in their own homes. Start-up kits will be made available at the workshops to enable people across Montreal to convert their rooftops into lush and productive gardens.
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Diet for a New Climate
The Jets (the Rooftop Garden discussion group) invites you to join us on Thursday, November 17 at 6pm for an evening of discussion concerning the links between Climate Change and Food.
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Urban Agriculture Reaches New Heights Through Rooftop Gardening
In Montreal, as in other Canadian cities, many citizens would like to rent a small plot of land or join other growers to plant and grow vegetable crops cooperatively and then share the harvest. Long waiting lists for community gardens, however, thwart these modest ambitions. In light of high demand and limited space for urban gardens, Alternatives is experimenting with a gardening system called "rooftop simplified hydroponics" - a system adapted from the group’s experiences in the developing world.
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