# Frais du toit

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly), 2017-09-30

cities, frais-du-toit, fresh-from-the-roof, green-roof, grocery-store, iga, montreal, organic-roof-garden, quebec, roof-garden, rooftop, rooftop-garden, saint-laurent, supermarket, uncategorized, urban-agriculture, urbanism

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[This past summer](https://www.iga.net/en/press_room/communiques_2017/iga_introduces_the_largest_organic_supermarket_green_roof_garden_in_the_country), an IGA store in Montreal’s Saint-Laurent borough erected “the largest organic green roof garden in the country.” It is about 25,000 square feet and it has a soil depth of only 150mm. 

They also claim that it’s the first supermarket in Canada to sell produce grown on the roof of the actual store. The brand: Frais du toit, or fresh from the roof. There’s even a livestream in the vegetable aisle showing you how the goods are doing overhead.

I would be curious to know what their yields are like and what they are charging for the produce. But it’s certainly a praiseworthy initiative.

Below is a quick video that will give you an idea of what the roof looks like. If you can’t see it, [click here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=59&v=-Z69ScyHCfU).

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