Risc Roof Garden Reading

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Risc roof garden reading.

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 low resolution version of the roof garden booklet. The beautiful rooftop garden above a reading community centre is being opened to the public for five days this summer. An oasis in the centre of reading find out about our global education projects find out more about the risc meeting rooms.

Demonstration of renewable energy water harvesting and irrigation systems. 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. A booklet about the garden including recipes and selected plant list with uses is available from risc s world shop. There are over 140 plant species benches and decking made from locally sourced storm felled timber and a greenhouse.

The risc garden is a rooftop forest garden designed as an interesting educational project and one that. 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. Crammed in to a small and rather rustic seating area we are given the history of the garden. Visit our award winning roof garden.

In 2002 we took this further by creating an edible forest garden on the flat roof above the conference hall. All plants in the garden have an economic use for food clothing medicine etc and come from all over the world. Download a list of herbs. 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.

Listen to an interview with dave on the alternative kitchen garden. A radical new approach to food production using horticultural models rather than agricultural ones. It is a systems rethink that generates productive low input and reslient nature friendly landscapes. A forest and vegetable garden developed on the roof of the reading international solidarity centre since 2001.