Bangkok Rooftop Farming
Turning Bangkok rooftops into circular farms that grow organic food from the city's food waste.
Bangkok Rooftop Farming (ฟาร์มบนดาดฟ้า กลางเมือง) is an urban social enterprise that turns the city's unused rooftops into productive organic farms, and its food waste into the soil that feeds them. Established in 2020, it grew out of the 2019 "Green Innovation City" project run with The NETWORK for Sustainable Development, Central Food Hall and Thailand's National Innovation Agency, and was co-founded by urban-resilience practitioner Pareena Prayukvong.
Its model is a closed loop. Organic scraps collected from hotels, offices and communities are composted into a soil amendment — sold under the enterprise's "Wastegetable" brand — which is then used to grow pesticide-free vegetables in rooftop gardens. The harvest is sold and served locally, cutting both the landfill burden and the transport emissions of long supply chains. It is a direct response to a city that generates tens of thousands of tonnes of waste a year, more than half of it food.
Beyond growing food, Bangkok Rooftop Farming designs and installs rooftop farm systems and runs an active education programme. It partners with hotels across the city — among them W Bangkok, Centara Grand, Pullman King Power and Le Meridien — to build farms into their buildings and to host visitors. Activities include hands-on workshops in planting, composting and harvesting, guided "Waste to Plate" tours that trace the circular system from food scrap to meal, rooftop yoga and meditation, and farm-to-table dining experiences.
Services & Activities:
Rooftop organic farm design and installation; a circular waste-to-compost service producing the "Wastegetable" soil amendment and vegetables; hands-on workshops in planting, composting and harvesting; guided "Waste to Plate" tours; and rooftop wellness and farm-to-table experiences run with partner hotels.
