Rooftop gardens project - Community Involvement

Educational Guide

Thu, 27 May 2010 11:34:58 -0400

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.

The season has started !

Tue, 12 May 2009 23:30:25 -0400

The McGill garden is up and running. Please note the changes to our volunteer schedule. Join us on Tuesdays 10:30-1:30pm (bring your lunch!), Wednesdays 4-7pm, and Saturdays 10:30-1:30pm (bring the kids!).

Charette de travail jardin sur les toits de l'UQAM

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:48:42 -0500

Vous êtes donc tous et toutes convié(e)s à une charette de travail pour brasser idées et visions du projet des jardins de l'UQÀM!

A new garden at UQAM

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:58:47 -0400

A new garden was created by students in Environmental Sciences at UQAM. Activities organised at this entirely self-managed garden will allow students to explore urban gardening and social involvement. The garden's produce will go to the red roof church for distribution to the homeless.

New garden in Johannesburg, South Africa

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:28:26 -0500

A new garden project is born in Johannesburg, thanks to the initiative of our intern Sara Brunelle. Click here to see photos

Rooftop Garden in Newport, Rhode Island, USA

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:59:39 -0500

Here is the rooftop container garden at the Headquarters of a non-profit radio station, WXHQ 105.9 LPFM, in Newport , Rhode Island. This is their working educational garden to promote sustainable agriculture and green living. They are trying to set an example in their community by collecting roof rainwater runoff and growing food.

Thank you to everyone for a wonderful 2007 season!

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:32:00 -0500

Now that the gardens have been put to sleep for the season, we have some time to step back and take stock of everything that we achieved this year.

We were visited by the "Women's Gardens Cycles Bike Tour"! Check it out...

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:57:52 -0400

It was great to meet these inspiring women who biked from Washington, DC to Montreal and back to learn about gardening projects along the way.

Check out what they had to say about us here...

Article: Fruits (and vegetables) of their labour

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:29:53 -0400

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.

Harvest Festival 2007 - what a great party!

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:52:22 -0400

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!

Article written by a Rooftop Garden volunteer and McGill student

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:25:18 -0400

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.

The garden on the UQAM Design building is set up!

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:15:09 -0400

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.

Weekly gardening calendar for 2007!

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:05:24 -0400

Now you can get involved in gardening every day of the week except Sunday! Hope you can join us!

Solstice Party was a great success!

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:28:37 -0400

June 21, 2007

Despite the grey skies, we celebrated the solstice and inaugurated the Edible Campus garden! It was truly fun....thanks to everyone who helped and hope to see you at the next party!

Rooftop Gardens Paper Wins Prize!

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:17:17 -0400

"Cultivating Connections: The Urban Agriculture Movement" won the 2007 Undergraduate Paper Prize from the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society!