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an aerial view of a rooftop garden with the words urban gardening and community farm above it

We 💚 everything about this project! A lush green oasis that grew from concrete and a seed of an idea. Take a disused rooftop in the heart of Copenhagen. Find members from the local neighborhood. A farming hook up helps too. Grow a rooftop farm together. Get a weekly share of the harvest. Open a restaurant. Welcome to ØsterGro. Seed + heart + vision. 🌱 💚

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several people tending to plants on top of a roof in front of the city skyline

Celebrate #EarthDay by growing your own food! Urban farming reduces our carbon footprint & brings fresh produce closer to home. Can you guess what's growing in this rooftop garden? #GrowGreenCities #WavesOfChange #BuzzWorthyApril #IntheSpotlightApril #SpringWonders #AprilFestivities #SpringIntoSavings #AprilPromotions #SpringWow #AprilMadness #EventfulApril

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an artist's rendering of a large building surrounded by trees and buildings in the background

It seems that every few years, another new farm comes to smash some record for size: the world’s biggest indoor farm, biggest vertical farm, biggest hydroponic farm. A new champion has arisen in Paris: when it opens in early 2020, according to the Guardian, it will become the world’s biggest urban farm. Urban farms have become a trendy and useful way to take even the smallest, most awkward, or most unwanted of city spaces and turn them into food producing venues. Unused factories, former…

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two diagrams showing the different types of trees and how they are used to grow them

At first, the images of Thammasat University Rooftop Farm seem like renderings, but they are in fact real. Designed by Landprocess, which is led by landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom, Interna…

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an outdoor garden with wooden benches and plants on the side of a high rise building

while the past few years has seen an 'amenities arms race', a new trend has emerged designed to attract affluent young professionals, urban farming.

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an info sheet describing the different types of plants and how they can grow in them

In densely populated cities where arable land for gardening or farming is almost non-existant, those activities can still occur on rooftops of urban buildings. This graphic explain how rooftop gardening is done on a commercial building some of the benefits and numbers when doing so.

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an artist's rendering of a green roof garden in the middle of a city

The future of retail and hospitality will touch down in Burwood, Victoria from late 2019 when Frasers Property Australia opens what is destined to be the most sustainable shopping centre in the world. With the aim of achieving the Living Building Challenge accreditation – Burwood Brickworks will put sustainability at...

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an artist's rendering of the interior of a building with lots of plants and trees

New York City's demand for fresh fruit and vegetables is increasing, as do most of the metropolitan areas in the world. Instead of importing goods from other states, which dramatically increases the prices because of transportation and logistics expenses,...

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people are walking around an urban garden with raised beds and plants in the foreground

Located in the inner city Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati, Rothenberg Preparatory Academy offers education from Preschool through 6th Grade and according to their website "is a redesigned neighborhood school offering a challenging curriculum and numerous, exciting enrichment opportunities that make learning fun." Previously languishing in vacancy and deterioration for years prior to rehabilitation, the building's design is a prime example of Cincinnati's rich architectural…

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