Course: SAT 230 Managing Food Production Systems in the Urban Landscape

Reading and Multimedia Assignments

Reading Assignment
Reading Assignment

Uncommon Ground - Green Restaurant

This web page describes Uncommon Ground a “green” restaurant in Chicago.  Uncommon Ground grows vegetables and herbs in a rooftop garden, produces no waste and powers its vehicles with used fryer oil.  It has been named the “Greenest Restaurant in America."

Even though it isn’t “commercial” production in the sense that it sells produce to others for profit, the rooftop farm is still a profit-producing garden and allows the restaurant to make use of “waste” for compost to grow more vegetables.

Uncommon Ground’s rooftop garden is also the first certified organic rooftop farm in the country.  This type of urban agriculture makes both ecological and economic sense.

The multimedia assignment on the next page shows a news feature about this restaurant.