EAGLE STREET ROOF TOP FARM IN GREEN-POINT BROOKLYN

EAGLE STREET ROOF TOP FARM in GREEN-POINT BROOKLYN

EAGLE STREET ROOF TOP FARM in GREEN-POINT BROOKLYN

Eagle Street Rooftop Farms is a 6,000 rectangle base green top covering organic vegetable ranch established on a warehouse rooftop in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. On the shoreline of the East River and with a clearing outlook of the Manhattan skyline, the ranch recognizes the bene ts of a green top covering while conveying hyper-local make to the Greenpoint community.

As a form for the built-up agriculture action and the utilization of green roofs in a exclusive kind, Eagle Street Rooftop Farms functions a little community sustained agriculture (CSA) program, and an onsite ranch market, and caters to locality restaurants.  Additionally, in joint project with Growing Chefs (www.GrowingChefs.org) the rooftop ranch hosts a variety of informative and volunteer programs conceived to convey city-dwellers nearer to their nourishment source.  Eagle Street Rooftop Farm is a merchandise of brainstorming between Brooklyn-based business Broadway Stages and the green top covering conceive and setting up firm Goode Green.   The ranch was primarily entitled "Rooftop Farms" in 2009 by its origin ranchers, Annie Novak and Ben Flanner.  

The ranch is established on a construction is belongs to by Gina and Tony Argento of Broadway Stages, a Greenpoint-based sound stage business with a longstanding annals of community investment.  Broadway Stages financed the green top covering installation.  Goode Green conceived the green top covering and established the groundwork scheme and increasing medium.  Annie Novak is the functioning grower for 2010.  Annie Novak  and Ben Flanner were the farm's growers for the inaugural 2009 time of the year and sown the first kernels on April 27, 2009.    To run the ranch, Annie works with a group of taught interns, built-up agriculture apprentices as well as employees from Growing Chefs (www.GrowingChefs.org).  Each week throughout the increasing time of the year, the ranch hosts volunteers, who aid with cyclic jobs, collection and composting.  The green top covering groundwork scheme is comprised of  2” of built-up components: polyethelene, drainange mat, and keeping and parting fabrics.  With the acceptance of the building's technician, 200,000 pounds of increasing intermediate were hoisted up on the top covering by crane, in "super-sacks", over the course of a lone day. The increasing intermediate, prepared exactly up on the green top covering groundwork, is a blend of compost, rock particulates and shale and is constructed in Pennsylvania. 

It is a green top covering constituent that at the identical time keeps water, permits for air circulation and is lightweight.  The green top covering can contain over 1.5” of rainfall, supplying a important decrease in gale water runoff. The apprehended water, in turn, can assist to cooling the warehouse underneath yielding a decrease in chilling costs.  Installation cost was roughly $10 per rectangle foot.  This is considerably smaller than most green top covering installations due in part to two major factors: the three article construction and open expanse of top covering were very accessible and, two, that recycled components for example ...