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Canada: Garden project on top of Dawson College cultivates fruits and vegetables

This looks like the last place you’d want to grow a garden. But several storeys above Atwater Ave. and de Maisonneuve Blvd., on a concrete rooftop wedged between ventilation systems and chimney stacks, bees buzz and late-season strawberries and cherry tomatoes ripen. A new crop of lettuce shows signs of green in a row of giant pots, the last hurrah before fall’s frost.

Welcome to Dawson College’s Rooftop Garden Project, which has turned four desolate expanses at its campus downtown into vegetable gardens lush with fruits and vegetables.

Click here to read the complete article at www.montrealgazette.com.