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Article: Fruits (and vegetables) of their labour
Article by a Rooftop Garden volunteer, published in the McGill Reporter.
Thursday, September 27, 2007.
With all the green initiatives, tools and designs available to us, sustainable living is becoming a lot more accessible. The Rooftop Garden Project, a community initiative managed by Santropol Roulant and ALTERNATIVES, a non-profit, non-governmental organization, is a wonderful example of this. I volunteered recently at McGill's Edible Garden, our contribution to the Rooftop Garden Project, located beside Burnside Hall.
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Submitted by rotem on Fri, 28/09/2007 - 2:29pm.
Balconies in Bloom Contest Winners Announced!
After a very intense and close voting process during the Harvest Festival, we are proud to announce the first and second place winners of the Balconies in Bloom Contest!
Posted to: Nos histoires / Our stories | Gardening Techniques and Dissemination
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Submitted by rotem on Tue, 25/09/2007 - 5:06pm.
Harvest Festival 2007 - what a great party!
Thank you to everyone who came out to our 2007 Harvest Festival! We had such a great time cooking with the harvest, eating corn, listening to music and even voting for our favorite blooming balconies!
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Submitted by rotem on Tue, 25/09/2007 - 4:52pm.
Article written by a Rooftop Garden volunteer and McGill student
Living a sustainable lifestyle is becoming a lot easier with all the green initiatives, tools, designs and actions being taken locally here in downtown Montreal—the Rooftop Garden Project being a wonderful example of this. This project is a community initiative organized and managed by Santropol Roulant and ALTERNATIVES, a Montreal-based not-for-profit and an international non-governmental organization, respectively. I have recently started volunteering at the McGill downtown Edible Garden, located beside the Burnside building, and would like to share my first impressions of the aesthetically pleasing and functional addition to the campus as well as to offer some views about Urban Agriculture and Green Roofs.
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Submitted by rotem on Thu, 20/09/2007 - 11:25am.
Harvest Festival 2007!
You are cordially invited to our...
Harvest Festival!
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Submitted by rotem on Tue, 04/09/2007 - 4:10pm.
Farm Visit to Yves Gagnon's farm!
Friday August 31st, the Rooftop Garden Project is organising a trip to Saint Didace to visit the magnificent ecological garden of Yves Gagnon, "Les Jardins du grand portage". We will have a guided tour of the site in the morning, followed by a relaxing afternoon at Lake Maskinongé. Bring a picnic!
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Submitted by rotem on Mon, 20/08/2007 - 4:06pm.
Balconies in Bloom Contest
The Rooftop Garden Project invites you to share how your environmentally respectful behaviours can go hand-in-hand with pleasure, discovery, beauty and taste.
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Submitted by ismael on Wed, 01/08/2007 - 11:56am.
BBQ Fiesta!
You are cordially invited to our....
BBQ Fiesta - Heat wave!
Come cool down in the garden!
Edible Campus Garden, McGill University (next to the Burnside building)
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Submitted by rotem on Wed, 18/07/2007 - 3:52pm.
The garden on the UQAM Design building is set up!
Our most recent baby, the rooftop garden at the UQAM design building, has arrived! Named after the militant environmentalist Claire Morissette and installed and planted at the end of June, this latecomer on the 6th floor, is a true urban garden with an amazing view of downtown and Mount Royal.
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Submitted by rotem on Thu, 05/07/2007 - 12:15pm.
The street-side garden
As a renter of a third floor apartment in Little Italy with only a humble balcony, I decided to expand my territory by creating a garden at ground level. With the involvement of the first floor tenants, I installed five self-watering gardening containers connected in a network to a 200 liter barrel of water. The barrel is connected to a container with a floater like in a toilet to maintain the desired level of water in the rest of the garden containers. Five wooden planters help to complete the decoration. Lettuce, strawberries, nasturtium, tomatoes, basil, ground cherries, cucumbers and some annual flowers make up the garden. Some cannas will give the whole garden a tropical flourish and the herbs spice up the colorful mixture. The plants are for everyone and the first floor tenants take care of the watering. A true community has been created around the garden, much to the enjoyment of all passers-by.
Posted to: Nos histoires / Our stories | Health and Quality of Life Improvement
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Submitted by rotem on Tue, 03/07/2007 - 2:55pm.