Caleb Melchior
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  • Home
  • What I'm Doing Now
  • Planting Design
    • Chapman Botanical Garden
    • The Meadow
    • Frontier Farm Credit
    • Poetic Image Studio
    • Farm on the Roof
  • Writing
    • Memos to Myself Prologue
  • Illustration
    • Illustration
    • Rendering
    • Garden to Plate
    • Sketchbooks
  • Journal
Farm on the Roof is the culmination of an urban design studio intended to address problems at a variety of scales in a 600-acre site directly north of downtown Saint Louis, Missouri. Food on the Roof addressed the an urban food desert by utilizing rooftop space for food production. A rooftop promenade helps create the site as a destination which builds on Saint Louis's thriving food culture to envision a more prosperous future.
The site layout is designed to maximize social and ecological functioning
The Anemone Wood offers a place of relaxation for clients between meetings
Heavily flowering understory plantings provide interest throughout the growing season
Rain garden plantings reflect indigenous streamside plant communities
The landscape offers a continually-changing foil for the dramatic views to the surrounding Flint Hills.
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