Rooftop Farming in Milwaukee
A farmer in Milwaukee is taking the green roof to the next level. Community Growers’ founder Erik Lindberg’s rooftop garden is yeilding enough organic produce to launch a CSA.
[Photo via Community Growers CSA wiki]
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Locals can snag veggies from Community Growers at Outpost Natural Foods. If you want to support what they’re doing even more, they’re selling 2009 CSA shares for $800 apiece. That’s a little steep for a CSA, but thanks to a green house, they’ll be able to extend their growing season into the winter. Typical CSA seasons don’t include the winter months.
Find Your Local CSA
Not in the Milwaukee area but still interested in joining a CSA? Local Harvest’s CSA finder has you covered! You can search for all sorts of local foods from farmers markets to restaurants by city or by zipcode!
Interesting post! Is organic always better for the environment? There’s a lot of doubt surrounding which methods/products are truly sustainable and which are just green washing. Check out our myth-busting video “What’s Your Big Green Lie?!” which gives a taste of the widespread ignorance of green issues at http://www.biggreenlies.com.
Its not all about the food being organic man, its cutting back on the pollution caused by transportation.
Check out this site http://www.religioustolerance.org/tomek33.htm. According to Brian Halweil from the World Watch Institute, a meal of meat, grain, fruit, and vegetables accounts for 4 to 17 times as much petroleum if it comes from afar than if a consumer buys the ingredients locally. The fuel burned to transport and refrigerate the food contributes to global warming. If the food is right across the street you can just go pick it up yourself. It makes more sense for the business and the environment.
I would say that growing organic is pretty important, too. Not only are many conventional fertilizers petroleum-based, the excess runs off into the groundwater, causing contamination.