Sick Kids Hospital
Healing above the city.
Working with the SickKids property management and wellness program teams, we created rooftop gardens on the new Patient Support Centre and the Alan Brown Building. The gardens produce fresh produce for the hospital's Terrace Café, and offer restorative outdoor experiences for hospital staff and volunteers.Â
A Rooftop that Feeds.Â
Warm rooftop temperatures, abundant sunshine, and carefully designed growing systems create ideal conditions for vegetables to thrive. Drawing on the same principles we use on productive farms, the gardens are managed through succession planting, crop rotation, and thoughtful crop planning. As one crop is harvested, another is already taking its place, keeping the gardens productive from spring through fall.
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Fresh vegetables travel just a few floors—from the rooftop to the hospital café—bringing the freshest possible food to the people who care for children every day.
A Garden that Brings People Together.
A successful garden isn't measured only by what it grows—it's measured by how people connect around it.
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Throughout the season, the rooftops become places where colleagues step away from the demands of hospital life to plant, harvest, cook, and celebrate together. Wellness events, volunteer days, seasonal harvests, and shared meals offer opportunities to slow down, reconnect with nature, and strengthen relationships across departments.
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Over time, the gardens become woven into the life of the hospital. They are no longer simply places to grow food—they become places where colleagues gather, celebrate the seasons and reconnect with one another.
