Growing Cities Screening & Learn About Rooftop Farming!

AGENDA

7:00 PM DOORS OPEN

7:15 PM DOCUMENTARY STARTS

8:30 PM BREAK FOR Q&A

8:35 PM Q&A STARTS

9:30 PM EVENT ENDS

Are you ready to grow something you can eat beyond the supermarket basil plant? Or curious about produce grown on rooftop spaces in New York City you can actually eat?

Join us for a screening of the new documentary GROWING CITIES and re-imagine your urban space with guest speakers Bradley Fleming (rooftop farm manager for Brooklyn Grange) and Liz Pulver a landscape architect by day who started a line of locally made outdoor planters which were featured in Martha Stewart's 2013 American Made contest and will be sold this spring in MSO's new American Made store on ebay.

ABOUT THE DOCUMENTARY

GROWING CITIES was formally a kickstarter funded project, about two young men making a journey across America to learn about urban agriculture and how it is revitalizing cities one animal, vegetable, and chicken at a time.

http://vimeo.com/42288661

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

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Bradley Fleming is the Farm Manager at the Long Island City operations for Brooklyn Grange. Before joining the Brooklyn Grange team, he turned nine acres of Vermont soil into delicious, organic vegetables. When he’s not up on the farm staking tomatoes, he can be found listening to 99.5 FM, sipping green juice and studying up on nutrition.

Brooklyn Grange (http://brooklyngrangefarm.com/) is New York City's leading rooftop commercial urban farming business, growing over 50,000 lbs of organically-cultivated produce per year and distributing fresh local vegetables and herbs.

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Liz Pulver is a landscape architect in New York City, and has designed a line of planters to address the unique gardening needs of urban dwellers. Everybody needs a little bit of green- and her planters are customized to fit urban spaces and urban lifestyles. http://lizpulverdesign.com/ ­

TICKETS $10 (this helps us cover the licensing fee to screen this documentary)