Dontcha just love when one thing leads to another (yes, like the song says)?

The vertical farming post from the other day led me to get in touch with Sky Vegetables, a cool urban agriculture firm out of Wisconsin that, “constructs and operates commercial, hydroponic greenhouses on the rooftops of supermarkets in the United States and eventually on all types of flat rooftops worldwide.”

Not only is the idea brilliant, but their blog — The Rooftop Gardening Source — had as its top story as of Tuesday, a piece about Brooklyn cooking enthusiast and rooftop gardener, Peter Bergold. There’s another piece about Mr. Bergold’s “success story” linked from that post to one on Gardeners.com.

Both are great reads. But it doesn’t stop there.

Sky Vegetables’ blog had another piece about a Brooklyn urban farmer, Jeff Hens of Park Slope! And that piece links to an excellent review at TheKitchn.com of how Mr. Hens developed his green roof veggie garden, complete with detailed info on how you can start one too!

Anyone into green roofs or urban gardening should definitely check out all four articles!

And hey, while we’re on the subject of green architecture and urban farming, check out the Queens art space PS1’s new construction Public Farm 1:

Pardon the vernacular, but I think this stuff is totally freakin’ awesome.

Tags: Gardeners.com, Jeff Hens, Park Slope, Peter Bergold, PS1, Public Farm 1, Rooftop Gardening Source, Sky Vegetables, TheKitchn.com, Urban Farming

Category: Culture, Eat Well Brooklyn, Green Building, Green Lifestyle, Green Roofs, Sustainable Food, Urban Greening

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