Rooftop Farm at Brooklyn Navy Yard

Sat, Sep 30, 2023
2:00 PM

Your guides: Brooklyn Grange

The Brooklyn Grange is a pioneer and national leader in rooftop farming and intensive green roofing practices. The organization promotes sustainable urban living by building green spaces and openly sharing their design practices, hosting educational programming and events, and widening access to locally grown produce in New York City communities. During our private tour of their 1.5-acre farm high atop the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a modern industrial park owned by the City of New York on the site of the former naval shipbuilding facility, we will learn how green roofs reduce stormwater run-off and building energy use and support plants that benefit people and wildlife.

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We are deeply grateful to the following for their sponsorship of the Garden Futures Summit.

UNDERWRITER
Phil and Shelley Belling
Perfect Earth Project

CHAMPION
Elizabeth Locke 

PARTNER
Eleanor Briggs
Howard Formby Garden Design, Inc.
Marilyn Lummis

FRIEND
Anonymous
Mrs. Coleman P. Burke
Camille Butrus
Diane and Jim Connelly
The Enchanted Edible Forest at Cross Island Farms
Elizabeth Giovine
Marsha L. Greenman
Michelle Griffith
Richard Motika and Jerrie Whitfield
Dr. and Mrs. Zebulon Taintor

CULTURAL SPONSORS

            

The Garden Conservancy educational programs are made possible in part by the Coleman and Susan Burke Distinguished Lecture Fund, Courtnay and Terrence Daniels, the Lenhardt Education Fund, and Susan and William McKinley.

Additional support is provided by The Celia Hegyi Matching Challenge Grant, Mrs. Ritchie Battle, the Antonia Breck Fund, Camille Butrus, Michelle and Perry Griffith, Rise S. Johnson, The Krehbiel Family Foundation, Sleepy Cat Farm Foundation, and John S. Troy, FASLA.