Locavore: A chef's salad? Check up on the roof

By Erica Noonan, Globe Staff

Chef-owner Jeffrey Fournier of 51 Lincoln in Newton Highlands needed to be in the kitchen, but still wanted to hand-pick his produce.

The solution? A rooftop garden.

With some advice from his friends at Allandale Farmin Brookline, Fournier created a container garden using the 1,800 sq. ft available on his eatery's roof, and even MacGyvered a little pulley system to lower produce to his kitchen door......