Hi everyone,
I have a project in Mexico where we are trying to create a rooftop food garden. I found this LEED Interpretation #10155 regarding urban agriculture and WEc1, but I don't know if I could count the "food vegetated" area towards SSc5.1 compliance... It's a mixed used project where, appart from having regular ornamental vegetation in many areas of the building terraces; the residential component would have access to rooftop terraces with permanent planters where the appartment owners can grow vegetables of their choice, because planters will be their "private property". Since you can't really tell them what and what not to grow, I can't guarantee that all species would be native/adapted, but surely there would not be monoculture practices, and many plants are likely to attract biodiversity. Also, it is considered that gardening practices will be organic. We are in a zero lot line project, high density area, in a city where 99% of built areas are low density.
Do you think this could count towards SSc5.1?

Thank you in advance.