Growing Food in the City - Urban Rooftop Farm in Downtown Toronto

[@HayleyTief]

This is the kind of thing that gets me excited. So much you see on the news can be so depressing, but the knowledge that forward thinking ideas are being implemented is so uplifting. Thanks for the video! Maybe someone who sees it will be inspired to push for this in their city.

[@jhshines8108]

Yes you are right ✅️ from henry farm knv youtube channel ❤

[@dne50]

Green roof by-law - what a great idea. Good ol' Toronto. Very cool to see the garden with all the buildings behind it

[@katnip2u]

Holy cow, I'm in Toronto and I had no idea this was going on! So great and encouraging! I'll be looking into this more now. BTW, my condo building management has let a few of us garden around our building for some 5 years now (complementing other professional lanscaping), so .. there is hope in urban settings for many edible gardens to pop up! However, we do have issues with rascal squirrels and raccoons, and STUPID inconsiderate tenants, who let their dogs relieve themselves in our garden beds .. very discouraging to continue growing greens and herbs anymore (tomatoes seem to be still fine and the dogs don't seem to go to zucchini and squash bushes, but ..) after you witness this kind of behaviour .. .. Rooftop gardening would solve the critter problems, that's for sure!

[@PermacultureHomestead]

if we hope to have any type of future, permaculture and urban gardening will have to be a part of it.

[@debbieboring3422]

Thanks for the video I am so glad to see more and more of these options being worked on in many areas.

[@111-k4d9m]

Great project. Good healthy food.

[@kodeywhitewolf4056]

So glad to see people using availability space for growing food

[@familybuzzconnections6070]

What a great project! It looks like the beds are full size too. I wonder if there’s issue with the amount of sun due to the surrounding buildings. It will always be a great sight from those buildings.

[@kinimediagroup]

Back to the future!!! This is inevitable and I LOVE it! 👍👍👍

[@altanautical]

Great video.everyone should be part of a community garden or atleast grow some of their own chemical free food. 🌿💚

[@skylarkkralyks4496]

OffGrid Sequence chemical free? How? Everything is chemicals. Maybe you mean no harmful chemicals.

[@howardbrooks8810]

This Will happen more and more as wages stagnate and inflation eats away remaining purchasing power, besides that people are making health decisions of growing their own food to have pesticide and herbicide free food . 😎

[@LungsOutJem]

This is very cool, but you could probably get ten times the yield using virtical planters on some of them. Lettuce doesn't even need soil.

[@skylarkkralyks4496]

J. C. It’s totally personal preference, but I can taste the difference between hydroponic lettuce and ... uh... dirtponic .... lettuce. And I don’t like the taste of hydroponic.

[@Wilbsss]

hydroponics in ground or vertical planters would increase growth rate and food yield/plant as well

[@LungsOutJem]

When we're talking about feeding a city and preventing food deserts, quantity definitely takes precedent.

[@shasterdhari]

@@LungsOutJem Well this initiative is more about researching the implementation and viability of urban farming in high density areas. Selling food is a goal, but not the primary purpose. However, Ryerson should definitely experiment with vertical farming. They may do a lot more on the new health sciences complex opening up.

[@ziad_jkhan]

Only leafy greens and herbs can be grown in vertical farms because they don't require a lot of sunlight all day long. Other plants generally require around 60w per sq. ft. for at least 6hrs a day. So until we can compensate with artificial lighting at low enough energy costs it won't be viable I'm afraid.

[@matthewpankau5683]

Love it! So many roofs with so much light utilization, it just makes sense. Personally, I feel as though vertical aeroponic style growing would be more ideal for rooftops. Less weight on the structure with longer root growth potential. There’s a company in France that does exactly this🌱🌱🌱

[@MimiTheGreatest]

We need this everywhere ➕ used as PTSD therapy for new and old Canadians. Nature heals, food security heals, see what works in remote hills of China. Grow herbs healing mind and body

[@myrden]

Valuable work with telling results 🌱

[@NewDimension7]

Yeay.. Nice influence for me Thanks for sharing Yuhui.. Back to garden

[@thestreamoflife1124]

Amazing. Toronto is a very progressive city

[@celestemarie9285]

Friendly heads up, I shared this video on fb and the thumbnail did not upload. This is such an amazing concept I hope my friends will be enticed to click the link purely by the title/my recommendation. Love your content keep up the great work!

[@ExploringAlternatives]

Hi Celeste, thanks so much for sharing! I'm not sure why the thumbnail wouldn't show up...Facebook does weird things sometimes. Have a great day :)

[@izzyyellowhair7117]

Tbh tho this gardening will give me ideas in my Front yard and Back yard of my home, wanna be a green thump person making mother earth green Again!!!!!

[@VanVida]

Brilliant and so inspiring

[@ExploringAlternatives]

Thanks so much!

[@michaelcsutton]

Brilliant. We need more of this.

[@marie-andreehould9859]

This is amazing. It should be mandatory everywhere! What a great way to learn, to use the otherwise wasted space and to make sure that we have access to local produce. Would love to see this kind of project implemented in more cities!

[@unoriginal1086]

Love toronto! This is so cool, I might buy from here sometime.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

This should be mandatory in all urban areas. And for regular homes, solar panels integrated into roofing tiles, apparently this tech exists in Japan.

[@kaylaalbers1153]

This is incredible!

[@liliyasgardenchannel8876]

This is really neat!!

[@amandanicole3999]

Sounds awesome!

[@pawlet]

Inspiring video. 🤗

[@yvonnekatherinhalupka1186]

WOW - stunning❣

[@helenamoniqueclarke8135]

Awesome.💯♥️🇨🇦

[@hannibalbra2808]

Hello I am from Tunisia and i am fascinated with this I would like to involve in this in my house rooftop how could u do it ?

[@rayva1]

They’re doing this all over CA too.

[@samirakacha]

This is wonderful

[@luzthegoose]

Love this!

[@Strylover]

Nice video inspiring.

[@wadekirby8575]

Are their notes (about what grows well) accessible by the public?

[@JacqInTheWild]

Pretty vague about building that can have roof gardens? What age? What size?

[@katnip2u]

This might help: www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/06/08/why-growing-vegetables-on-the-roof-is-the-future-of-toronto-architecture.html

[@Wilbsss]

age and size don't matter so much as load-bearing capacity of the roof and building as a whole and roof access. they say industrial, 50s because those buildings generally had an excess of strength. any company buying an old building for that purpose would require planning permission which would entail an examination of the original plans or structural testing. I highly doubt this could be done on any preexisting home as rooves are not built to support weight like that.

[@mind-bodysynergism3704]

Question: Are you practicing Organic farming/gardening?

[@swish1onu]

Imoressive garden, but isnt toronto's urban air polluted?

[@andreasgran3568]

We got this in sweden at the old harpors

[@nayashams6845]

I am all for it.

[@geriannroth449]

Brilliant

[@JoelWelter]

Very nice!

[@kevindavis9319]

Good ideas

[@brittaneymitchell2966]

Wow

[@savedfaves]

Bazos doesn't pay taxes in Toronto. He should pay for it all.

[@germanantonio3874]

How do you guys fund yourselves for urban farming?

[@lisalynn1]

Nice

[@wowmarie6606]

Yesss 😁

[@raraavis7782]

Say hello the future 🙂

[@МаксимРунцев-д8г]

Автор канала русскоязычный?

[@ArizonaKyle-t3b]

wow this video was 5 years ago 5 years ago i was 6💀

[@rooftop.g.s]

Thank you my friend for posting this very useful video. I wish your channel more progress and prosperity, and I also expect more cooperation between our channels, and as an initiative from me, I liked this video, subscribed to your channel and hit the bell button. Waiting for you and greetings to you.

[@cathylynnpietranton]

Cool

[@bitethebullet8213]

what a folly! growing plants on top of skyscrapers will never be a part of our new future. talk about a $10 tomato!

[@user-cl3gz9ey1w]

tower crane

[@venley28]

5:17 😳

[@don0giorgio]

What about air pollution in the f downtown???

[@flemmingengel4795]

city vegetables gardens

[@Juber777]

"high yield" what?, corn isn't a high enough yield? And you didn't say potatoes for that I will *not* like the video ...still a good start for "small" scale farming

[@Wilbsss]

corn is good yield by mass but very low value both nutritionally and $$$ wise.

[@manishpatel2816]

Hindi Language

[@thebabbler8867]

Food will be the new money soon. Get into gardening ASAP, the dollar will be nothing after the upcoming collapse. Oh, and move OUT of the cities.

[@andreinarangel6227]

a nice fad

[@GEAUXFRUGAL]

And all I say sounds like a question???????????