Urban Farm Project

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URBANFARM PROJECT : DETAILS

Urban Farm is growing food on a Dublin city center rooftop with an indoor aquaponic allotment for all season growing,practicing new innovative urban food growing methods and sustainable principals.

The idea is to convert a negative space into one that creates a tangible benefit for the community  

In 2012 the new  " UrbanFarm not-for-profit Group " secured workshop studios & rooftop space at 
The Chocolate Factory, a new creative community developing in an old factory in the heart of Dublin.

We are researching and demonstrating intensive urban growing techniques, growing food, keeping fowl, fish and bees. 

We have begun to host events & community groups and provide hands-on workshops that teach responsible food production, carpentry, energy-saving systems, ecological cycles, and community self-sufficiency  observing organic & pesticide free practices. 
We go beyond the normal timber yards and builders suppliers, all materials used are salvaged from waste, meaning most supplies used in the production of the farm have been diverted from landfill, de-constructed & up-cycled on site.

• Working with other local businesses to install and maintain rooftop gardens, composting and other creative urban  growing projects for the purpose of healthy food production, neighborhood revitalization, and community engagement.
  
  
  We also partner with local sustainable organizations for training communities in growing food-- 
• Our rooftop farm offers the necessary space for students and teachers to practice their skills while maintaining the garden at the same time. 
  Through cultivating a network of urban farmers, we hope to catalyse social changes that will improve the livelihood and livability of our city spaces.
  
  
  URBAN FARM is Devised & Founded by Andrew Douglas 
  Construction Team Leader : Paddy O'Kearney

• Joe Duffy's Local Heroes TV Programme,
• Filmed over 8 weeks as we built the rooftop space & indoor growing centre.
• " Two young Dublin men who don’t want to emigrate are attempting to turn a rooftop in the north inner city into Ireland’s first Urban Rooftop Farm." 
• RTE : Wednesday 29th May 2013RTÉ Local Heroes, in association with MACE, is about celebrating individuals who are doing or plan to do something visionary to create jobs.

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