Risc Roof Garden Reading

Risc roof garden one day workshop on forest gardening edible landscaping and urban permaculture.

Risc roof garden reading.

There are over 140 plant species benches and decking made from locally sourced storm felled timber and a greenhouse. The risc roof garden is a small edible roof forest garden developed to demonstrate sustainability and our dependence on plants. Designed as an educational tool using permaculture principles the garden has become an oasis in the centre of reading a demonstration of how a garden can support more sustainable lifestyles and provide a practical solution to the problems of peak oil and global climate change. Download a list of herbs.

A booklet about the garden including recipes and selected plant list with uses is available from risc s world shop. In 2002 we took this further by creating an edible forest garden on the flat roof above the conference hall. Reading international solidarity centre at 35 39 london street is keeping up the local tradition of campaigning for international justice whilst addressing environmental issues by creating a highly original garden project up on the roof. Hen the idea of a roof garden at reading international solidarity centre risc began to take shape in 2001 it was a practical response to the problem of a leaking roof and how to provide sound and heat insulation for a conference hall which doubled as a venue for noisy events.

Demonstration of renewable energy water harvesting and irrigation systems. Visit our award winning roof garden. It is a systems rethink that generates productive low input and reslient nature friendly landscapes. Rainwater is gathered from the roof irrigation pumps are powered by solar and wind energy and plants are fed with compost made from the food and paper waste from the offices.

Listen to an interview with dave on the alternative kitchen garden. Download the full roof garden plant list. A forest and vegetable garden developed on the roof of the reading international solidarity centre since 2001. Download a low resolution version of the roof garden booklet.

Crammed in to a small and rather rustic seating area we are given the history of the garden. A radical new approach to food production using horticultural models rather than agricultural ones. All plants in the garden have an economic use for food clothing medicine etc and come from all over the world. An oasis in the centre of reading find out about our global education projects find out more about the risc meeting rooms.