Green Roof Garden
Thanks to a $5000 grant award from the City of Chicago Department of the Environment, the Experimental Station has installed the first portion of its roof top garden this past September. Some 400 square feet of our 10,000 square foot roof now grows eight varieties of sedum, planted in 2' x 2' x 4" containers called "Green Roof Blocks" and 3' x 2' sacks called "Green Paks". Both products were purchased from St. Louis Metalworks. We hope, in the future, both to increase the size of our roof garden and, eventually, to include intensive rooftop gardening.