Canada’s only rooftop garden on top of a supermarket keeps on producing

From nan parking lot, you mightiness not cognize that atop of nan IGA Extra Famille Duchemin, successful Ville-Saint-Laurent, sits a 29,000-square-foot garden.

The greenish rooftop has been successful cognition for 8 seasons now, and this twelvemonth nan shop has collaborated pinch Montreal non-profit La Ferme de Rue.

“We are producing, conditioning, putting nutrient successful packages and bringing it down,” said Réal Migneault, laminitis La Ferme de Rue Montreal.

This year, location are 40 different integrated vegetables, herbs and Quebec ail increasing successful nan garden.

From eggplants to tomatoes, spinach and peppers – you name, they person it.

The products are planted, grown, washed, packaged and brought down into nan supermarket.

“We person a spot wherever we put each nan caller from nan tile produce,” said Richard Duchemin, IGA Extra Famille Duchemin St-Laurent co-owner. “We person besides a show truthful customers tin spot farmers increasing and harvesting nan vegetables.”

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The non-profit oversees nan harvest pinch a large squad that includes CEGEP students, newcomers and young people, experiencing their first occupation successful municipality agriculture.

The statement besides offers workshops to simple and precocious schoolhouse students, hoping to transmit an important message.

“Urban agriculture is 1 that goes pinch pleasure,” said Migneault. “If you turn your ain tomatoes, you will beryllium satisfied but astatine nan aforesaid time, you will return attraction of your ain nutrient proviso and besides make a bully motion for nan environment.”

And it’s besides a helping manus to those successful need.

Some of nan nutrient grown present is shared pinch section organizations.

“Fifteen per cent, much aliases little — past twelvemonth was 18 per cent — goes to organizations that are progressive successful nutrient information but locally,” he said.