It's Wednesday and the farm is bustling. Growing season means that there is much work to do and today, alongside the permanent staff, there are over twenty volunteers. Everyone is busy: weeding, harvesting vegetables, washing salad leaves, weighing and portioning crops for members' veg boxes, feeding and cleaning the chickens, tending to the bees … the list is endless but the enthusiasm is infectious.
ØsterGRO is a community farm located in Denmark. Actually, it is a farm within the heart of the city of Copenhagen, and to be precise, the farm sits high on the roof of a large industrial building, which was once used as a car auction house. At 600-square-metres in area, the rooftop is home to two large “fields” of organically grown vegetables. There are also the…