A look at the life-cycle of a rooftop vegetable farm for a Canadian restaurant—complete with hydroponic planters, a hoop house—including the harvest of beautiful vegetables.
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Throughout the year, we will be sharing with you innovative landscape design and garden projects from noted designers. Today, Victoria Taylor, a landscape architect, who also happens to be the sister of our Style Director, Lindsey Taylor, shows us her recent project Parks & Rec, a restaurant's rooftop garden.
In the spring of 2010, Parks & Rec, a rooftop vegetable garden, was established on the roof of downtown Toronto restaurant Parts & Labour. It was designed and operated as a for-profit roof farm by the two of us, landscape architect Victoria Taylor, OALA, and trained chef and permaculturalist Katie Mathieu.
Click through the slide show to see the different planters and vegetables up close. And if you want to read more about the project, check out the Parks & Rec blog.