ROOFTOP GREENHOUSE SET TO ENERGISE DALSTON SCHOOL

East London Lines, November 2012
by Ellie Slee

Punctured footballs, tattered tennis balls – and tomatoes? Of all the things you might expect to find on the roof of a primary school, vegetables probably aren’t first on the list. But all that might be about to change as a local inventor has drafted plans for a greenhouse on top of a school in Hackney.

Charlie Paton, 62, has lived and worked on Forest Road for over thirty years, and owns Seawater Greenhouse, a Hackney-based company which has pioneered new technologies allowing year-round crop production in some of the world’s hottest and driest regions.

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