Bastille's rooftop garden makes MSN City Guide
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Bastille, chef Shannon Galusha and Colin McCrate from Seattle Urban Farm Company are mentioned alongside other national chefs like Rick Bayless, and their restaurants, who are on the cutting edge of rooftop gardening. Here’s an excerpt from the piece:
When the owners of Seattle’s Bastille Cafe & Bar were planning their restaurant, which opened in late June, they thought the flat roof of the single-story building they were occupying would be perfect for a garden. “Few places in the city have the capacity to do this,” says chef Shannon Galusha.
The rooftop garden, designed with the help of Colin McCrate of Seattle Urban Farm Company, is now 5,000 square feet, with roughly half planted. Eventually, says Galusha, the garden will be 10,000 square feet. Read more…