Rooftop Gardening is a Growing Trend in New York City

[TAkabir]

Sounds good for a single family but how do you provide for a 100 family or more in that limited space of a single skyscraper.

[stuartmcnab]

Remember always, money is an abstract concept. While we should be fiscally responsible, we should not drive all of our decisions by monetary fears alone. For a people who waste obscene amounts of money on war, gambling, tobacco, narcotics, and vaporize billions on stock markets, we need to look at longer term ways of valuing things. I believe individual responsibility for food production, no matter how small is commendable and worthy of investigation.

[NoMansLandNYC]

The more food we grow, the more population expands. The more population expands the more food we need....and so on and so on. This planet (along with the rest of the universe and beyond) was never ours to make what we want with it. The whole damn thing is a giant beast and we are no less a part of it than the birds, the worm or the leaf. We stopped evolving because we want more food than we need. Forests turn to farm land, we expand and again need more farm land. Grow on your roofs people...

[bam6470]

@NoMansLandNYC shut up hippy people don't stop evolving

[pgm98387]

Great idea! Using local roof space for food!

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[Omega231984]

I wonder why we don't try experimenting with different ambient light to try and replicate the required sun sources so that we can harvest crops inside entire skyscrapers as the need for farmlands increases, the population will eventually prevent any production growth with over crowding. Instead of looking to flatlands, we needs to look to the sky, think about the revenue for each sky garden. Each 100 story building could harvest enough food for 100,000 people per city in controlled environment

[hablerz]

@Omega231984 No where near economically viable , a 100 story appartment block would make much more money.

[NoMansLandNYC]

@hablerz So what do we do with more money? Buy food? If food is the issue, than where do we buy it from?

[hablerz]

@NoMansLandNYC Rooftop gardens are a great idea , building skyscrapers specifically to house plants and gardens is not viable for the foreseeable future and is not feasable. Every project has economic factors.

[bam6470]

@Omega231984 that is already possible it is used for growing weed indoors, google hydroponics.