Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Three stories above a busy stretch of North Halsted, on a rooftop with views of downtown skyscrapers, crickets chirp and prairie flowers dance in the breeze. Waist-high grasses set the tone in a ...

Researchers used CO2 from classrooms at Boston University, through rooftop exhaust vents, to help spinach grow up to four times larger and corn twice as big than a control group not receiving CO2.

Long the territory of cats, weather vanes, and the occasional fiddler, roofs are growing thick with solar panels. A home or business rooftop is an ideal place to site them because sunlight there is ...

CHICAGO — Three stories above a busy stretch of North Halsted Street, on a rooftop with views of downtown skyscrapers, crickets chirp and prairie flowers dance in the breeze. Waist-high grasses set ...

Though there are a few common problems with rooftop gardens, a DIY rooftop garden can help prevent wildlife pressure while you’re growing your own food. I’ve always loved gardening. I grew up in a ...

Sabhapati Khadanga, aged 76, practices natural farming on his Bhubaneswar rooftop. He uses kitchen waste and local inputs for ...

The urban cool of rooftop gardening can easily transfer to smaller cities and rural areas as well. “Creating a green roof or a roof garden is a great way to utilize space that you already have,” says ...