Living Homegrown Podcast With Theresa Loe

LH 131: Farming The Rooftops of New York City This podcast focuses a lot on working with the space you have to grow your garden. Whether that's a backyard, a farmstead, or simply container gardening - where there is a will there is a way to a farm fresh lifestyle. This episode is about a very creative and inspiring use of space - right in the middle of New York City (and it's not Central Park). Host Theresa Loe invited Anastasia Plakias to talk about an actual farm that is acres large on top of buildings in New York City. She shares how this project is changing the way city folk think about agriculture and organic farming in a way that no one was expecting. You will learn:      Why build a farm on top of NYC Buildings      How this farm produces over 50K pounds of veggies/year      The challenges of building a 2 acre farm over the city      The motivations behind the mission      What turned out to be their biggest win in all this      How they added rooftop chickens and bees to the project      What they ho