Green Roof Growers: Bruce Fields. Heidi Hough, Debbie Kong and Little Green Girl

By Staff
Updated on March 5, 2013
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Green Roof Growers

We’re growing organic heirloom vegetables on our rooftops and in our backyards in Chicago using homemade sub-irrigated planters (SIPs — more on them below). We started our blog, Green Roof Growers, to share our experiences and show other urban residents how easy it is to grow their own food — on a roof, balcony, parking lot, or on top of toxic city soil. To paraphrase Michael Pollan, growing food is a small but powerful gesture, one that can change the “cheap energy mind.”  


Bruce Fields 

After spending most of my life avoiding it, now I’m interested in connecting with the biotic world.  I began growing vegetables on my rooftop, in part as a practical response to many of the larger issues I felt powerless to address.  

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