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Kristian Skaarup’s rooftop farm is also an excellent restaurant
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top this vast building in the north of the city, Kristian Skaarup, 39, strolls down pathways and around flowerbeds rattling off the plants he grows here: “We have cabbages and broccoli over here, right there are carrots, radishes and asparagus, over there we grow strawberries and raspberries...” Østergro, the first urban rooftop farm to be established in Denmark, opened in 2014 and is home to 350m2 of organic crops along with flowers, beehives, a henhouse and a rabbit hutch. In the middle stands a glass greenhouse-cum-dining room with a long table that can seat 25 and where gourmet, local cuisine is served to a rapt clientele, thrilled to have discovered this oasis 12 metres above the ground, with panoramic views of the city and the cranes of the port. “What motivated us to create this place? Climate change. In 2010 and 2011,
