Download a list of herbs.
Risc roof garden reading.
The risc garden is a rooftop forest garden designed as an interesting educational project and one that.
Download the full roof garden plant list.
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.
The risc roof garden is a small edible roof forest garden developed to demonstrate sustainability and our dependence on plants.
The gardens of berkshire the yellow book of the national gardens scheme describes the risc entry as a small town centre roof garden developed to demonstrate sustainability and our dependence on plants and points out that it is featured in.
Crammed in to a small and rather rustic seating area we are given the history of the garden.
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.
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.
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All plants in the garden have an economic use for food clothing medicine etc and come from all over the world.
Risc roof garden one day workshop on forest gardening edible landscaping and urban permaculture.
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.
There are over 140 plant species benches and decking made from locally sourced storm felled timber and a greenhouse.
Demonstration of renewable energy water harvesting and irrigation systems.
It is a systems rethink that generates productive low input and reslient nature friendly landscapes.
A booklet about the garden including recipes and selected plant list with uses is available from risc s world shop.
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The beautiful rooftop garden above a reading community centre is being opened to the public for five days this summer.
A forest and vegetable garden developed on the roof of the reading international solidarity centre since 2001.
