What is a rooftop garden?

While setting up the technical side of rooftopgarden.com, I was talking to a web guy and he had no idea what a rooftop garden was. He actually asked me, what is this company, rooftopgarden.com, what is a rooftop garden? It really hit me. Wow, I thought everyone really knew what a rooftop garden was.  Then I realized, duh, no they don’t. That is the purpose of rooftopgarden.com. The entire reason I reserved the domain name 10 years ago was for that exact reason. Nobody really knew or understood what a rooftop garden was except for those in close circles with Mayor Daley, or the Department of Environment folks or my dear friend Bernice and my awesome husband John. Actually, I am kidding. There are many experts out there who have extensive knowledge of the subject. Hopefully you will get to meet some of those experts as they participate in this blog and the development of the rooftop garden database. 

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