Canada's only supermarket rooftop garden grows in Montreal

Canada's only supermarket rooftop garden grows in Montreal

August 2, 2024 6:13 pm EST.

"It's hyper local," said Richard Duchemin, co-owner of IGA extra famille Duchemin in Montreal's Saint-Laurent on the freshness of the vegetables growing in the only vegetable garden on a supermarket rooftop in Canada. Emma Megelas reports.

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