what is roof top farming?

Answer 1

See Roof-farming southeast London
in
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/roof-farming-southeast-london.html
http://www.cityfarmer.org/

Answer 2

So far, it seems to be a concept that hasn't really 'taken root,' so to speak. From what I can see on the Internet, there is talk of using roofs of buildings for more than protection of the interior spaces. They may want to harvest light crops, but there is talk of just harvesting the water captured from the roof.

Everything I saw was a concept drawing or a promise to appease 'tree-huggers' that crop land lost could be regained by using the roof of a warehouse!

The concept is also know as Green Roof and Roof Farming. It seems to have a following in London and (surprise, surprise) California!

Answer 3

In Asia, in countries such as Japan, roof-top gardening is a method of expanding gardens by using the thatching as the rooting media. In China, many plants are put near walls and then trained to grow over the roof. This is common with luffa, a gourd like plant used as a bath sponge. It has an added benefit as the leaves of the plant shade the house and make it cooler. Nutrients for the plant are derived from the decaying thatching. However this is falling by the way as corrugated metal roofing lasts far longer (Thatching must be replaced every few years) but in some areas of China (around Leizhou for example) many houses are still thatched. This culture is limited by the type of thatching used as palm thatching decays slowly compared to rice straw. In Hong Kong, roof top farming is different and is used for various animals rather than plants, and you can find pigeon lofts on many of the older buildings. Now the government of Hong Kong is trying to eliminate such bird culture because of Avian Flu. One type of Japanese iris is known as the roof-top iris. As many of the old cottages in Europe were thatched, perhaps it is the same.

Answer 4

My girlfriend maintains a roof top garden in downtown Chicago. Beyond providing her lunch most days, it also keeps the building cooler. Rather than having the sun heat the building directly, the plants intercept that energy and turn it into lunch. The next level of building oriented “greening” is to sod the roof top, but that can get heavy and the building needs to be checked over for the dead load of the soil and its water. That adds to some significant insulation.

Answer 5

it is a new era of farming on roof and using the roof in multiple ways.
now a days there is a shortage of farming land in the human locality an therefore this concept is discovered to use the best part of roof in this task.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Farming. On rooftops.