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Lunch from the roof

On the flat roof of a vocational school in a small Swiss town, something unusual is
growing. Between the solar panels there are now twenty wooden boxes full of lettuce,
beans, tomatoes and herbs. The garden is run by apprentices from three different
jobs.
5The idea came from Lara Imhof, a second-year apprentice gardener. Two years ago, she
noticed that the roof was empty and that the school canteen bought almost all its
vegetables from other countries. "I thought it was a waste of space," she says. She
wrote a short plan and showed it to the head teacher, who was not convinced at
first. He was worried about the weight of the soil and about safety on the roof. An
10engineer checked the building, and in the end the school agreed to a one-year trial.
Today, the apprentice gardeners plant and water the boxes, the future cooks decide
what to grow for the canteen menu, and the apprentice carpenters have built the
boxes and a fence around the edge of the roof. Each group spends about two hours a
week on the project during school time. In the summer holidays, when the school is
15closed, a few volunteers take turns to water the plants.
The garden cannot feed the whole school. Last year it produced around 300 kilograms
of vegetables, which was enough for the salads in the canteen from June to
September. "It's not about the numbers," says Tobias Graf, the canteen manager. "The
students see where food comes from, and they waste less. When they have grown the
20tomatoes themselves, they don't leave them on the plate."
Not everything has worked. In the first spring, strong wind destroyed half of the
young plants, and the apprentices had to start again. This year they are testing a
small system that collects rainwater from the roof. If it works, Lara would like
other schools to copy the idea. "Every flat roof is a garden that nobody is using
25yet," she says.

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Lunch from the roof

On the flat roof of a vocational school in a small Swiss town, something unusual is
growing. Between the solar panels there are now twenty wooden boxes full of lettuce,
beans, tomatoes and herbs. The garden is run by apprentices from three different
jobs.
5The idea came from Lara Imhof, a second-year apprentice gardener. Two years ago, she
noticed that the roof was empty and that the school canteen bought almost all its
vegetables from other countries. "I thought it was a waste of space," she says. She
wrote a short plan and showed it to the head teacher, who was not convinced at
first. He was worried about the weight of the soil and about safety on the roof. An
10engineer checked the building, and in the end the school agreed to a one-year trial.
Today, the apprentice gardeners plant and water the boxes, the future cooks decide
what to grow for the canteen menu, and the apprentice carpenters have built the
boxes and a fence around the edge of the roof. Each group spends about two hours a
week on the project during school time. In the summer holidays, when the school is
15closed, a few volunteers take turns to water the plants.
The garden cannot feed the whole school. Last year it produced around 300 kilograms
of vegetables, which was enough for the salads in the canteen from June to
September. "It's not about the numbers," says Tobias Graf, the canteen manager. "The
students see where food comes from, and they waste less. When they have grown the
20tomatoes themselves, they don't leave them on the plate."
Not everything has worked. In the first spring, strong wind destroyed half of the
young plants, and the apprentices had to start again. This year they are testing a
small system that collects rainwater from the roof. If it works, Lara would like
other schools to copy the idea. "Every flat roof is a garden that nobody is using
25yet," she says.

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The vegetable boxes stand between solar panels.