Podcasts about up top acres

Hundreds of thousands of people will head to Washington D.C. this week to celebrate the Fourth of July holiday. While they look up to enjoy the fireworks, there's something else up there that's a bit harder to see: rooftop farms. Kristof Grina, the co-founder and farm manager at Up Top Acres, says his goal is to restore nature in cities, and they do this by establishing gardens on top of commercial buildings. He says there's a lot of rooftop space in the city that could be put to use. On the six acres of rooftop he manages, you'll find everything from raspberries and figs to carrots and cucumbers. Some roofs are home to honeybee hives and pollinator habitats for wild monarchs. It's not cheap to start farming on a roof, but commercial building managers are seeing a return on investment.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Danielle chats with Kristof Grina, cofounder of Up Top Acres, about gardening on patios and rooftops in the DC area. Kristof shares tips about what produce thrives in our region, along with some anecdotes about his own experiences with rooftop agriculture.

Kristof Grina has big plans to enhance DC's urban agriculture landscape. Across DC, Up Top Acres operates 7 rooftop farms, producing locally grown vegetables and herbs for city dwellers. Everything they grow travels no more than 1/4 of a mile—redefining the local food movement.

Hosted by David and Nycci Nellis. On today's show: This show is awash in thought provoking topics info AND lotsa liquid refreshment. Guests include local entrepreneur, Kristof Grina, co founder of Up Top Acres, which bring greening to rooftops and other underutilized spaces with urban farming techniques yielding bountiful crops for city dwellers; Michael Iglesias, beverage director at chef Victor Albisu's new Poca Madre and Taco Bamba “combo" restaurant in the Penn Quarter, is in with tastes and talk if his selection of his more than 90 premium mescals; one of the world's foremost authorities on culinary culture, Amy Riolo, who is the national spokesperson for the American Diabetes Association's new, Quick Diabetic Recipes Cookbook, and is in discussing the value of the tasty, delish recipes in her new cookbook, and, finally, Sam Nellis, Foodie and the Beast's Number Three son, has become an acclaimed mixologist in his position as assistant GM and the guy in charge of the cocktail programs at The Red Hen and Chef Mike Friedman's other property, All-Purpose Shaw – he's invented a signature line-up of flavored spritzes, and we get to sample them all!

Hosted by David and Nycci Nellis. On today’s show: This show is awash in thought provoking topics info AND lotsa liquid refreshment. Guests include local entrepreneur, Kristof Grina, co founder of Up Top Acres, which bring greening to rooftops and other underutilized spaces with urban farming techniques yielding bountiful crops for city dwellers; Michael Iglesias, beverage director at chef Victor Albisu’s new Poca Madre and Taco Bamba “combo" restaurant in the Penn Quarter, is in with tastes and talk if his selection of his more than 90 premium mescals; one of the world’s foremost authorities on culinary culture, Amy Riolo, who is the national spokesperson for the American Diabetes Association's new, Quick Diabetic Recipes Cookbook, and is in discussing the value of the tasty, delish recipes in her new cookbook, and, finally, Sam Nellis, Foodie and the Beast’s Number Three son, has become an acclaimed mixologist in his position as assistant GM and the guy in charge of the cocktail programs at The Red Hen and Chef Mike Friedman's other property, All-Purpose Shaw – he’s invented a signature line-up of flavored spritzes, and we get to sample them all!

A discussion between Up Top Acres CEO Kristof Grina and Kevin Sofen about the evolution of roof top farming. Up Top Acres is reimagining what a farm looks like. We grow food on roofs - converting underutilized spaces into productive farmland and environmental safeguards. We create spaces for communities to interact with and learn about food, in order to establish agriculture as a fixture of city life. http://uptopacres.com/index.html --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rethinking-h2o/support

Up Top Acres is a start up created by 3 millennial friends who grew up in DC. The brilliant idea!? They create sustainable gardens on rooftops in DC. On apartment buildings, offices, and more. They want every building to feed it’s residents. How did they start, what is the most difficult part of being a start up, and is DC government interested in feeding it’s residents?