World’s biggest rooftop greenhouse opens in Montreal
By AFP
12 September 2020 |
9:11 am
Building on a new hanging garden trend, a greenhouse atop a Montreal warehouse growing eggplants and tomatoes to meet demand for locally-sourced foods has set a record as the largest in the world.
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