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Rooftop Gardens

Rooftop Gardens are one of the greatest things I've found since moving to an Urban area in Toronto. The idea is to take unused typically ugly space and turn it into a beautiful useful piece of land. Rooftop Gardens can grow small amounts of vegetables and herbs, and help with air quality, noise polution, and neglect. I took these pictures on top of the office building I work at, and I am on a mission to find out more about these and to bring them to Austin when I move back in June.

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Easy Composting

As I'm learning about gardening, I see that one of the most important part about closing the circle is composting. Today I found a device that looks like it might address a lot of the issues I had…Continue

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Started by Nicholas Nagao Apr 20, 2011.

Rooftop Gardens in Stuttgart

According to…Continue

Tags: stuttgart, garden, rooftop, germany

Started by Nicholas Nagao Aug 12, 2010.

Rooftop Garden in Toronto

I recently moved to Toronto and with the move I started working in a new office. About a week after I started at the new office, people jokingly told me to go find the way to get to the roof because…Continue

Tags: garden, rooftop, ontario, canada, toronto

Started by Nicholas Nagao Apr 22, 2010.

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Comment by Nicholas Nagao on April 26, 2010 at 6:51pm: Hey man, it'd be great if you could make a blog post about the resources you've found. Even if it's just a short list with a brief description next to each, people including myself would find it really helpful.