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Educational Guide

The Rooftop Garden Project team is proud to present the pedagogical guide Roots Around the World. Through a series of practical, critical and creative educational activities, it allows students in the three cycles of primary school to discover and reflect upon what is at stake in urban agriculture. Beautifully illustrated, this guide will take you from the fridge to the garden, from local action to global thinking.

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Submitted by ismael on Thu, 27/05/2010 - 11:34am.



Rooftop Garden Project Film **NOW ONLINE**

The best way to learn about the Rooftop Garden Project is to come garden with us, but for those of you in far away lands, we have made this film (in French with English subtitles). It happens between 2004 and 2006.

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Submitted by rotem on Mon, 23/02/2009 - 10:50am.



Our new publication! - Now available in English, too!

Here is our new how-to guide "Guide to Setting up Your Own Edible Rooftop Garden"!!!

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Submitted by amelie on Mon, 31/03/2008 - 4:21pm.



Spreading the Roots: An assessment of the social and enviromental impacts of the Rooftop Garden Project

Written by Rotem Ayalon, for the Rooftop Garden Project
December 2006
(full document attached as a pdf below)

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Submitted by rotem on Fri, 22/12/2006 - 1:16pm.



Rooftop Garden Project Technical Report 2006 (French Version Only)

Download this report to learn about the technical progress of our project. The experiments were conducted at the Roulant demonstration garden and had as main goals the improvement of health and productivity of container grown vegetable plants and the weight reduction of our growers. Within, you will discover all kinds of information regarding our semi-hydroponic and self-watering growers as well as our rainwater caption and passive distribution system.

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Submitted by benji on Tue, 12/12/2006 - 1:02pm.



Educational Guide now available!

To obtain a French version of the educational guide Roots Around the World, email us at marianne@alternatives.ca, mentioning the name of your institution or organization and your name and coordinates. You can also order a pdf version on a CD. English version will be available soon.

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Submitted by rotem on Wed, 01/10/2008 - 11:18am.



Press release - Rooftop Garden Harvest Festival 2007

Montreal. September 11, 2007.

Alternatives, Santropol Roulant and the Minimum Cost Housing Group of McGill University’s School of Architecture invites you to join us for the Rooftop Garden Project’s Harvest Festival at the Edible Campus Garden (Jardin du Roulant) on Thursday September 20th 2007 from 5 to 10 pm in front of the Burnside Hall, on the main campus of McGill University.

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Submitted by rotem on Tue, 11/09/2007 - 4:45pm.



Urban Planning Master's Thesis on rooftop greening

Before beginning to work full-time with the Rooftop Garden Project, I wrote my Master's thesis for a degree in Urban Planning on municipal strategies to encourage rooftop greening ("Making Rooftops Bloom: Strategies for encouraging rooftop greening in Montreal).

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Submitted by rotem on Thu, 02/11/2006 - 3:50pm.



Urban agriculture training manual (available in french and portuguese)

Here is a comprehensive urban agriculture workshop manual created by Geneviève during her internship in Brazil. It may very will inspire you! The document is available for download in french and portuguese. Happy reading!

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Submitted by benji on Fri, 27/10/2006 - 12:18pm.



Beating the Heat in the Concrete Jungle: Community groups combat summer heat and smog by greening Montreal!

Montreal – Summer 2006

As Montrealers suffer another stifling summer heat wave, feeling choked by the smog and humidity, some people are trying to do something about it!

But a cooler gentler Montreal is possible if we can “green-up” the city centre with urban vegetable gardens, green roofs, and more trees. Many community and environmental organisations are leading the way.

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Submitted by rotem on Mon, 17/07/2006 - 11:07am.



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