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Developed Design Update - Garden Village Rooftop Farm

11/14/2014

It was March of 2013 that I was contacted by Josiah Cain of Sherwood engineers and Design Ecology to consult on a rooftop farming project to be built in Berkeley Ca, just a few blocks from the UC campus. The 72 unit building was in schematic design and the client was excited at the possibility to grow food on the 16 roofs of the residential building. My role was to assess the viability of the farm operation and recommend the type of supportive systems. After a lengthy review from from the city of Berkeley the Client received the go ahead from the city of Berkeley to develop the design for permit submittal in November of 2013.

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Benjamin Fahrer is the owner and operator of Top Leaf Farms and has over 18 years of organic farming experience, building, design work and teaching in natural resource management.
He has successfully managed and operated many projects including Ocean Song Farm in Sonoma County and managed the farm at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur. He has worked on additional projects both in design and implementation in Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Costa Rica, Mexico and New Zealand. Dedicated to good, clean and fair food, Farmer Ben has worked with communities in re-establishing their connection to nature through food and tending the land in a way that ensures an abundance exists. It is crucial for whole systems to thrive when the surplus is redistributed back to the earth and people so that all life's system thrive.

Developed Design Update - Garden Village Rooftop Farm

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