Ryerson University Rooftop Garden

The ryerson urban farm operates productive growing spaces across the ryerson university campus using spray free ecological methods. Learn about the physical accessibility of ryerson urban farm spaces.

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July 9 2014 by tfpc admin.

Ryerson university rooftop garden. The urban farm operates productive growing spaces across the ryerson university campus using spray free ecological methods. Wireless soil sensor network for rooftop gardens. Through these programs we aim to build capacity for urban agriculture through production education and research.

The rooftop farm is located on the andrew and valerie pringle environmental green roof above the george vari engineering and computing centrefor safety and liability reasons access to the rooftop farm is limited to our programming and scheduled tours. The leftover produce is given to the good food centre at ryerson. Nabeel ahmed meng candidate electrical computer engineering ryerson university.

The food is also sold at ryersons weekly farmers market and to campus food services. Ryerson urban farm aims to build capacity for rooftop farming through production education and research. On tuesday ryerson universitys rooftop farm hosted tours as part of its first annual harvest festival marking the end of its first full growing season only blocks from yonge dundas square.

Monitoring of hydrologic performance of ryersons rooftop garden. We offer educational programming to the public and engage with student and faculty researchers. Originally built in 2004 this green roof was converted into an edible garden in 2013 by ryersons student initiated garden group ryerson urban farm formerly ryes homegrown.

Ryerson university is home to a quarter acre rooftop farm on the andrew and valerie pringle environmental green roof located on the george vari engineering building in the heart of downtown toronto. We offer educational programming to the public and engage with student and faculty researchers. While the andrew and valerie pringle environmental green roof was originally implemented to help manage building temperature and reduce storm water run off the green roof provided fertile ground for an.

Ryerson urban farm turned the roof of the george vari engineering and computing centre at ryerson university into a viable urban farm that produced more than 8000 lbs of vegetables last year. Food produced in the garden is used in ryersons harvest party an annual event that celebrates local organic food. The success of this conversion is beautifully depicted by the pictures.

Ryerson university george vari engineering and computing centre originally this project was installed with a hydrotech garden roof in 2004 but in 2013 it was converted into a rooftop farm. The produce harvested from the rooftop garden is sold at the farmers market on gould street every wednesday from 11 3 pm. Muhammad ammar khan beng candidate department of civil engineering ryerson university.

A rooftop garden offers the unique opportunity for people to connect with their food.

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