Green Roofs & Living Walls

This tour was inspired by a chapter in my new book called A Little Left of Garden Centre. A kind of “alternative” gardens tour. So we won’t be doing VanDusen Botanical or Minter Gardens on this one.

Wed. July 21 – 6 to 8pm

On this walking tour we explore a number of unusually wonderful gardens. The SPEC rooftop vegetable garden was planted with the help of a nearby school; the veggies share the roof with solar panels, we’ll hear about them too. Next we’ll see the living wall at the new Greens Organic & Natural Market and talk to designer, Geneviève Noël of Mubi. Then landscape architect Randy Sharp will give us the low down on green roofs right from his own backyard. He has a green roof on his garage. Finally, we’ll visit with Assefa Kebede from the Nyala Restaurant in his spectacular front yard garden, full of fruit trees, herbs, vegetables and bee hives. The roof is just about the only place he’s not growing something! Part of the Exploring Food Systems Summer Series.

$35. Register at info@gardenheart.ca

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