I've been doing some word of mouth advertising for my gardening class in the spring, trying to get the interest up, and so far I probably have about 5 out of 70 possible definite attendees. And then it hit me...
Why talk about doing this when we can actually set up a rooftop garden at work!? We're a non-profit org, and one of the divisions is responsible for community assistance, why not set up an employee run garden and donate the produce to our food banks? I have been lamenting the fact that downtown Syracuse is full of flat roofed skyscrapers but no one has done anything about it, why not set one up on our "lowscraper" and get some media attention on this.
I don't know how our building and grounds and risk management dept might react, but this just seems too perfect an idea.
A few things impede me at this point.
1.) I have never organized anything...not just anything like this, but anything...period.
2.) I hardly consider myself an expert gardener, am I really the one to lead this?
3.) I have no experience with rooftop gardening. What problems do pigeons present? We have an abundance of them.
And in other news, my wife brought up the idea of splitting a CSA share while we were having dinner with friends. Totally unprompted, out of the blue. Wow. She does that sometimes. She rolls her eyes and smirks then shakes her head when I bring up turning under the entire front lawn, but then out of the blue comes up with things like the greenhouse...er sunroom, and now this!? She is crunchy, she just keeps a lid on it. muahahaha.
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Hey k~,
I meant to leave a comment on your first post about teaching your class but just never got around to it. I think it's great by the way, and from experience I can say that it's a real good time! which brings me to my bigger point. I know you've read my personal blog before, but wasn't sure if you've seen the additional one that I set up when I taught a class in my own community (Syracuse UT). I have some very basic lesson plans that I posted up before each meeting to let people know what was going to be talked about and also for my future reference. You can find it at http://syracuseutgardens.blogspot.com
I wish you the best of luck with your class k~. It's a great thing to do.
P~
Heck, you don't have to be an expert to teach others. You just have be confident in what you're takling about and try things out.
As long as you allow extra depth in the beds I think a roof top garden would work out great. Check out Square Ft Gardening for info about setting up beds on hard surfaces. And I bet there is a book just on rooftop gardens.
People at work can learn as you learn. No better way to learn than to just do it.
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