Rooftop initiative brings farms to Hong Kong skyline

“I’m very much a city person, but I still want to have the experience of being able to grow my own food,” she says.

By Emma Boyde
Financial Times
Oct 16, 2019

Excerpt:

On the roof of a five-floor shopping mall, Michelle Hong is explaining how she and her two co-founders set up a rooftop gardening company.

In the suffocating heat and standing in what is, at 13,000 sq ft, Rooftop Republic’s largest project in Hong Kong, she points out a small girl in pink school uniform.

Instead of walking straight through this mini organic farm garden like the other passers-by, the girl lingers as her mother walks around the beds and points to the flowers and vegetables.

They study asparagus, okra, lemongrass, lemon trees, pandan leaves, peanuts, spinach, watermelon and an array of herbs; aubergines have been cropped and some rows lie fallow before they can be replanted.

This is not a run-of-the-mill ornamental roof garden.

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