Up Top Acres – How One Rooftop Farm Could Make Your City Better

Up Top Acres operates a network of rooftop farms across the DC metro area. Traditional farms measure the distance their produce travels in miles driven – we measure ours in flights of stairs.

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Published on Jun 12, 2017
(Must see. Mike)

Excerpt:

Founded in 2014, Up Top Acres was started by Kristof, Kathleen and Jeff, 3 DC natives who met while attending DC Public Schools. After graduating college, the team returned to DC with the goal to make the city they grew up in a better place for their friends and family who call DC home.

Up Top Acres started with a 10,000 square foot rooftop at the Farm at Elm and Woodmont. Since then, they have installed a microgreen and herb rooftop farm on top of Oyamel in partnership with ThinkFood Group, supplying restaurants throughout Penn Quarter and producing 1,000 lbs of microgreens a year. The Garden at Greene Place is Up Top’s first experiment in transforming residential home agriculture.

Up Top Acres.