The roof measures 45,000 square feet (close to an acre), more than a third of which is now cultivated.ĭesigned and installed by Recover Green Roofs and maintained by Green City Growers, also of Somerville, Whole Foods’ new a 17,000-square-foot rooftop farm is expected to yield thousands of pounds of “hyper-local” produce each year. Recover Green Roofs is a design-build firm specializing in the design, installation, and maintenance of rooftop gardens, amenity spaces, roof decks, and rooftop.
They can be installed on many types of roofs, including terraces, high-rise building roofs, and low-podium or at-grade on-structure installations. “It’s really impressive.” In fact, the garden would not exist if not for all that structural support. Recover Green Roofs is a design-build firm specializing in the design, installation, and maintenance of rooftop gardens, amenity spaces, roof decks, and rooftop farms. A green roof is an excellent stormwater management option on a fully built-out or highly-constrained site. “You should see all the crossing beams when you look up inside the store,” says Whole Foods produce team leader Aaron Ratte.
After nearly two years of collaboration between architects, designers, engineers, and horticulturists, the garden is in place and fully operational.īecause the store was in the beginning stages of being built, they could plan accordingly. Recover Green Roofs, a Somerville-based green roofing company, provides the physical foundations for our Green Roof farms using a custom Vegetable Green Roof. Before construction began, before 300 tons of soil were hauled up, and before a single seed was sown, the folks at Somerville-based Recover Green Roofs looked long and hard at the structural capacity and safety issues associated with building a rooftop garden atop the new Whole Foods located in Lynnfield’s MarketStreet plaza.
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