High Fives to Mumbai's Flyover Farm

We really miss our girl Mriga, but at least while she's in Mumbai (doing amazing things at Norblack Norwhite) she can keep us informed about awesome projects like this rooftop farm project by Adrienne Thadani's Urban Farming initiative, Fresh & Local. The Flyover Farm will grow fresh produce on the roof with the goal of distributing it straight to the building's residents. They're also planning to host a composting program for the building's kitchen waste, communal dining time, and urban farming workshops for city dwellers. Sound familiar? High fives to Flyover Farm from the Everything Roof! Make sure to check out their Kickstarter campaign. Best of luck comrades!

Greenhouse Gallery | Field Trip to Fresh City Farms

Our curating team, led (and transported) by Rodrigo Marti, ventured up to visit our friends from Fresh City Farms at their greenhouse at Downsview Park this morning. I was lucky to get to know the FCF crew while working with them on their branding and web design earlier this year. Their mission to empower young people in the GTA to farm organically everywhere from backyards to rooftops to this greenhouse had the AFC pretty excited. So when they suggested that we work together on an event this Fall, we were all over it. And when they told us we could hang art in their greenhouse, we got more than a little nerdy about it. I mean, what more perfect a setting to raise funds for an urban rooftop garden created by local artists than in an urban greenhouse with an art show? Hence our little art team field trip.

Our visit timed up with FCF seeding their greenhouse for the season. So by the time we convert this space into a gallery (for the weekend of November 5th & 6th) these beds will be green with organic veggie leaves. You can get these same veggies delivered to your door each week straight from Fresh City if you live in T.O. Check them out, check back here for more info on the event and mark the date down on your calendars!

P.F.1 More Reason We Love New York

It's no secret that we love NYC. We've posted a lot about cool ish happening in the big apple in the past. Bike lights and green roofs and extensive public transit and (now) same-sex marriage (yay NY!) are all things found in this great city we get to run around this weekend.  Yes, we're Brooklyn-bound! No one's getting married (that we know of) but we'll definitely have some things to post about upon return. For now, in honour of this weekend's trip and thanks to our art friend Rodrigo Marti digging this up from 2008, here's a little video of an amazing project at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center a few years back.

Check the video and the P.S.1 website for more info. And if you happen to be in NYC this weekend, check our music friend Kids & Explosions at the Glasslands Gallery on Friday night.