Many of us have a friend or two with a really nice rooftop garden. 

But do you know anyone with a aquaponic greenhouse on their roof? Well, you might. But if you do, chances are that system is homemade and rather small.

Edenworks is aiming to change all of that. 

The New York City startup launched in 2013, seeking to bring urban rooftop farming into future with their unimaginably efficient and clean pre-fab systems for raising seafood and produce-- right on your roof.

They're kind of like the Ikea of aquaponics systems for the urban rooftop farm. 

You can order a system and assemble it yourself. Plus they've developed a rooftop farming app to accompany the system, easing the logistics of and removing some of the guesswork.

So what is aquaponics exactly? It's a soilless system of growing produce, similar to the more well known hydroponic methods of raising plants. 

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The main difference is that aquaponic models integrate a community of fish whose waste water, once naturally digested by another organism in the process, perfectly fertilizes the farming system. Subsequently, the water is filtered by plants and returned to the fish. 

It's a fully-natural system that yields super high quality fish, prawns, and produce using "90 percent less water and energy than traditional farming," and no harmful chemicals. 

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CEO and Co-Founder Jason Green notes that, “Agriculture consumes 30 percent of global carbon energy, and 92 percent of global freshwater.” So the potential for high food output with minimal effect on the environment is ideal.

Only time will tell how much this technology will be integrated into our rooftops. 

That being said, Green is quoted in a recent TechCrunch article by stating, “If you could grow baby greens, herbs, seafood and mushrooms on top of a residential building, it would offer a better payback period than the rest of the building.” 

So maybe if we all get Edenworks systems, our damn rent wouldn't be so high? 

Who really knows, but we can only hope, right? Right. 

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