What is up everyone? Welcome back to the Evig gardening podcast. We are here for our final, for the time being episode with Erica Nolan of Instar Farms and I't know, what better way to end the week with Erica than talking about rooftop gardens?

I know, you know, looking through my Instagram feed, I'm always, you know, your eye gets caught on certain images and it doesn't get caught on other

images and anytime Erica posted about this particular rooftop garden that she was maintaining

which was on the New Orleans Convention

Center I would always stop and be like oh wow that looks amazing and probably

because I really wish I had a rooftop garden of my own and I do not and so I cry

every night about that but it's just a really cool way

of making use of urban space and so I figured for our final episode we'd have Erica

just chat a little bit specifically about that project Erica but also maybe

how did that get set up what are some tips on you know auditing a rooftop space things like

this yeah super exciting project.

So it's a rooftop garden atop the New Orleans Convention Center

and we were growing food for Center

which is the food distributor for the convention center.

And the construction, the construction of the rooftop garden was definitely a little bit

different compared to my typical edible garden experience because they bit different

variables that we had to think about.

The first was the placement of the bed.

And so we had to work with the building's architect to figure out what made sense for placement.

How would thousands of pounds of soil sit on the rooftop.

And so we had a design that basically allowed

for a raised bed that was 220 feet long by three feet wide to be placed on the very edge of the building and

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