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URBAN GARDEN PROFILE: Bowery Mission Rooftop Farm

The Bowery Mission has began a Rooftop Farming Project to augment their kitchen's vegetable source. This garden was just planted this last few weeks and uses a light weight soil with mulch in plastic beds with gravel. The goals of the roof top farm are to provide mission residents an opportunity to develop care for the plants and an understanding  of the responsibility that it takes to grow food. Self sufficiency and and sustainability are the vision.

In the coming weeks we hope to get more information on the materials and development of the garden. Our visit included a tour of the Bowery Mission facilities and a history of the venerable and respected institution. The staff was kind and had opened it's doors to participate in the street fair for the Festival of Ideas for the New City.
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