Rooftop gardens project - Our Publications | Nos publications

Educational Guide now available!

Wed, 27 May 2009 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.

Rooftop Garden Project Film NOW ONLINE

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:50:52 -0500

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.

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

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:21:15 -0400

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

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

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:16:13 -0500

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

Rooftop Garden Project Technical Report 2006 (French Version Only)

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:02:48 -0500

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.

Educational Guide now available!

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:18:38 -0400

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.

Press release - Rooftop Garden Harvest Festival 2007

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:45:21 -0400

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.

Urban Planning Master's Thesis on rooftop greening

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 14:50:58 -0500

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).

Urban agriculture training manual (available in french and portuguese)

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:18:51 -0400

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!

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

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:07:39 -0400

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.

Garden Workshops Library

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:17:33 -0400

Here are the summaries of our workshops. Have a good read!

Rooftop Garden Brochure

Tue, 23 May 2006 16:56:10 -0400

Here is a PDF document detailing the project. (4 page document)

Reflections on Food Security

Tue, 23 May 2006 16:49:41 -0400

Reflections on an Innovative Collaboration: a Word document detailing the rooftop garden project, written by Alex Hill (Alternatives) & Jane Rabinowicz (Santropol Roulant).

Rooftop Gardens and Green Roofs Brochure

Tue, 23 May 2006 15:50:13 -0400

Everything you always wanted to know, but were afraid to ask.

Rooftop Gardening Technical Report 2005 (French Version Only)

Tue, 23 May 2006 15:21:29 -0400

This document describes the technical orientations of our project and compiles all the experiments that occured in our main demonstration gardening last summer.

Rooftop gardens project - Our Publications | Nos publications

Educational Guide now available!

Rooftop Garden Project Film **NOW ONLINE**

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

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

Rooftop Garden Project Technical Report 2006 (French Version Only)

Educational Guide now available!

Press release - Rooftop Garden Harvest Festival 2007

Urban Planning Master's Thesis on rooftop greening

Urban agriculture training manual (available in french and portuguese)

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

Garden Workshops Library

Rooftop Garden Brochure

Reflections on Food Security

Rooftop Gardens and Green Roofs Brochure

Rooftop Gardening Technical Report 2005 (French Version Only)

Rooftop Garden Project Film NOW ONLINE