Kameido Sengen Nursery Rooftop Garden (with MyFarm)
Koto, Tokyo, Japan · Operator: 亀戸浅間保育園 with マイファーム株式会社 (MyFarm Inc.)
Overview
A licensed Koto-ward nursery in Tokyo built a full rooftop vegetable garden on its sunny roof in autumn 2019. Moving up from ground-floor planter boxes, children experience food education by sowing, observing, harvesting and cooking. MyFarm runs the monthly garden lessons, making it an urban model for pre-school children learning the link between farming and food.
Citizen participation
Nursery children join monthly events to plant seeds and seedlings, observe and care for the crops, then harvest and cook what they grow; MyFarm runs the monthly garden lessons.
Operating model
Operated by the nursery, with MyFarm providing paid garden design and lessons; municipal rooftop-garden subsidies are also used.
Impact
Cited as a forerunner for making rooftop gardens a pillar of food education at urban nurseries, informing the spread of similar programs.
Crops
- okra
- green beans
- broccoli
- komatsuna
- seasonal vegetables
Scale
Rooftop of a licensed nursery; monthly garden classes for toddler/pre-school age groups
Sources（2）
This entry is compiled from the public sources, official sites and research below.
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