IGA Extra Famille Duchemin St-Laurent has partnered with a team including CEGEP students and newcomers to Montreal for its new season.
Published Jul 28, 2024 • 1 minute read
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IGA Extra Famille Duchemin St-Laurent co-owner Richard Duchemin, right, and La Ferme de Rue Montréal team leader Antoine Hadrava check on tomatoes growing in the rooftop garden at the grocery store in the St-Laurent borough of Montreal on Friday July 26, 2024. The green roof expanded by 4,000 feet this year.Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette
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The green roof at IGA Extra Famille Duchemin St-Laurent, billed as Canada’s only vegetable garden on a supermarket rooftop, has kicked off its eighth season. New features include a new gardening partner — the not-for-profit organization La Ferme de Rue Montréal — to support the IGA Extra team, and an expanded space.
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La Ferme de Rue Montréal’s team of 17 includes students from CEGEP de Victoriaville completing an internship as part of the Development and Management of an Urban Agriculture Program; newcomers experiencing social integration; and adolescents for whom this is their first job in urban agriculture.
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La Ferme de Rue Montréal oversees vegetable production on the roof — the garden now occupies more than 29,000 square feet, up from 25,000 square feet — prepares the produce for market and ensures a direct supply from the rooftop to the grocery store. This year, there will be 40 varieties of Ecocert-certified organic vegetables and herbs, including, for the first time, Quebec garlic.
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IGA Extra Famille Duchemin St-Laurent co-owner Richard Duchemin, left, and La Ferme de Rue Montréal team leader Antoine Hadrava check on tomatoes growing in the rooftop garden at the grocery store in the St-Laurent borough of Montreal on Friday July 26, 2024. The green roof expanded by 4,000 feet this year.Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette
IGA Extra Famille Duchemin St-Laurent co-owner Richard Duchemin checks a display of produce grown upstairs in the rooftop garden and sold in the grocery store in the St-Laurent borough of Montreal on Friday July 26, 2024.Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette
IGA Extra Famille Duchemin St-Laurent co-owner Richard Duchemin, left, and La Ferme de Rue Montréal team leader Antoine Hadrava check on eggplants growing in the rooftop garden at the grocery store in the St-Laurent borough of Montreal on Friday July 26, 2024. The green roof expanded by 4,000 feet this year.Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette
La Ferme de Rue Montréal team leader Antoine Hadrava checks on eggplant growing in the rooftop garden at the IGA Extra Famille Duchemin St-Laurent grocery store in the St-Laurent borough of Montreal on Friday July 26, 2024. The green roof expanded by 4,000 feet this year.Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette
CEGEP de Victoriaville student Enya Lalmi works in the garden atop IGA Extra Famille Duchemin St-Laurent in the St-Laurent borough of Montreal on Friday July 26, 2024. Lalmi is doing an internship in vegetable growing.Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette
IGA Extra Famille Duchemin St-Laurent co-owner Richard Duchemin, right, and La Ferme de Rue Montréal team leader Antoine Hadrava check on tomatoes growing in the rooftop garden at the grocery store in the St-Laurent borough of Montreal on Friday July 26, 2024. The green roof expanded by 4,000 feet this year.Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette
IGA Extra Famille Duchemin St-Laurent co-owner Richard Duchemin, right, and La Ferme de Rue Montréal team leader Antoine Hadrava check on tomatoes growing in the rooftop garden at the grocery store in the St-Laurent borough of Montreal on Friday July 26, 2024.Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette
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Projects in the pipeline for 2025 include the recovery of vegetable wash-water, the cultivation of berries and edible flowers and the installation of beehives.
In addition to overseeing production, La Ferme de Rue Montréal’s team offers workshops on urban agriculture to elementary and high school students as well as horticulture and agriculture students, landscape architecture students and community and corporate groups.
La Ferme de Rue Montréal integrates the support of organizations involved in food security into its mission, and 15 per cent of this year’s production will be donated to not-for-profit organizations in the region that help people in need.
IGA Extra Famille Duchemin St-Laurent is located at 5600 Henri-Bourassa Blvd. W.
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