EAT UP por Lauren Mandel

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Author is Rooftop Agriculture Specialist at the preeminent green roof firm in North America, Roofmeadow. Eat Up provides Eat Up provides much-needed tools and information to turn dreams of rooftop farms and gardens into actual growing spaces that feed people. Rooftops are considered the last frontier in Urban Farming Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle are increasingly turning their rooftops into productive spaces. These are the most likely American cities to embrace rooftop agriculture The author designed a 10,000 square foot rooftop farm in Philadelphia and contributed significantly to the design of a 160,000 sq ft rooftop farm in the same city.Author travels around the world visiting rooftop farms and gardens, interviewing the farmers, gardeners and beekeepers.Author is one of the most foremost authorities on rooftop gardening in North America Invited speaker to the 2012 Urban Agriculture Summit in Toronto. While other books lightly touch upon rooftop food production, Eat Up digs deeply into the the subject. Written by a practitioner, and not an academic or journalist, Eat up offer the essential insider’s perspective.With the rediscovery of fresh, local food, urbanites are planting farms and gardens throughout the city. Rooftops

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Lauren Mandel is a Project Manager and Rooftop Agriculture Specialist at Roofmeadow, the preeminent green roof firm in North America, where she designs vegetated and agricultural rooftops, and oversees green roof construction throughout the United States. She has visited rooftop farms and interviewed rooftop farmers and gardeners across North America, and has contributed to the design of several rooftop agricultural operations in the Mid-Atlantic. Ms. Mandel holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Science from Skidmore College. She has previously worked as a landscape designer, US Forest Service wilderness ranger, organic farm intern, and a research intern for American Farmland Trust.

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