What's going on everyone?

What's going on everyone?

What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the show. We are here with Robert Strauss,

the farmer on the roof. That is his Instagram handle, recommend giving him a follow.

So we've talked of course about your rooftop garden, Robert,

and I think a question that I see or a topic I see promoted is,

you know, oh, wow, why don't we just convert every single rooftop in every city to a green roof or a productive garden?

It'd be such an easy thing to do.

And certainly the ideal sounds appealing but you know how practical or how feasible as someone

who's done that do you feel that that is?

Right well you know Kevin I didn't go into it with the idea of making a living or feeding my family year

round.

It's more of a leisure activity for me, more of a hobby.

I'm a bit obsessive about it and I spend an insane amount of time on it, but I don't really ever think of it as say an occupation.

So when we talk about, yeah, why don't you just plant every rooftop in Barcelona or New York

City and help with so many urban problems and just agricultural problems.

It's a terrific idea and I hope that will sometime happen, but it's not going to solve the world's

problems of food production and you know there's a whole idea of kilometer zero I guess it's

mile zero in the United States and all of that is great but I don't foresee the

day when we're going to be growing great fields of wheat or corn across urban areas.

It's, first of all, it's a tremendous amount of work and economically it may never actually be very competitive with

traditional gardening or traditional farming.

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