Folks on the streets of the Belmont section of the Bronx may not realize that up on the roof of the SBH Health System Health and Wellness Center, it’s a green scene — in the form of a rooftop farm.

“We’ve had a lot of patients come here, had a lot of vegetables been grown over here, and we have been able to give a lot of fresh produce to our patients who have not been able to afford the food in the surrounding areas as well,” said Dr. Manisha Kulshreshtha, senior vice president and chief clinical & strategy officer at SBH Health System, and known as Dr. Kul.

The farm is run by the Project Eats organization, which has similar farms across the city. Crops like carrots and all types of greens are used in the health and wellness center’s teaching kitchen, which aims to show folks in the community how to make healthier meals.

Students also visit the farm to plant, harvest and cook in the kitchen.

“When they do this themselves they take it home to their families, they teach their parents, they teach their grandparents and they tend to cook healthier as well,” Dr. Kul said.

Produce is also distributed for free at a food pantry and for discounted prices at a weekly farm stand.

“I think it’s so incredible that we have this just right here up the stairs,” Andrea Polvere, a dietician who instructs in the teaching kitchen, said.

In addition to growing produce on the roof, there are four beehives, producing 200 pounds of honey each year. Dr. Kul says SBH is planting the seeds for healthier lives.

“Eating well, eating right, having good lifestyle, exercising, cooking at home if you can, not only going out and eating those fried foods, but making sure you stay health as best as you can,” she said.