"What is 66 Square Feet About?
It's about gardening in tight spaces. It's about how to live in a tiny apartment with a tiny terrace. It's about friends, and inspiration and blackspot on the roses. It's about food and cooking over an open flame. It's about wine. And water. And watering...And picnics. It's about Brooklyn. And South Africa. It's about seasons without and within. It's about where I go and what I come back to: a terrace twelve-and-three quarters by five-and-a-quarter feet wide."
"A Commercially-Viable Roof Farm in Brooklyn
Just a century ago, much of North Brooklyn was a sprawling agricultural breadbasket that supplied food to the booming population of New York City. As the city expanded, this bucolic setting gave way to industrial development and farm fields disappeared under blocks of factories and warehouses.
"On the shoreline of the East River and with a sweeping view of the Manhattan skyline, Eagle Street Rooftop Farm is a 6,000 square foot green roof organic vegetable farm located atop a warehouse rooftop in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.