Who does the growing
Tending a rooftop growing site is skilled, steady, local work. We create those roles specifically for people with disabilities, and we train people into them.
The work
- The roles
- Growing and harvesting a rooftop site is a real job with a real wage, not a placement. The people who do it are on our staff.
- The training
- Nobody is expected to arrive knowing how to run a soil-free growing system. We train people into the work, and the sites are designed around the people who tend them.
- Why this work
- The sites are small, close together, and in the neighbourhoods people already live in. The work is regular and the routine is stable — which is what makes it hold, where a scheme built on goodwill does not.
In the neighbourhood
Most people in a city have never seen food growing. Our sites sit on top of the buildings they live in, so we open them: we show neighbours what is growing, how it grows, and what it takes. A city that understands where its food comes from asks better questions of everyone who sells it.