Window farms

The farms themselves are vertical, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield edible window gardens built using low-impact or recycled local materials. 


Window Farms. Another interesting design project within the midst of the movement to 'growing your own'. This particular initiative commenced life through helping people to grow some of their own food all year round in the windows of their apartments. The farms themselves are vertical, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield edible window gardens built using low-impact or recycled local materials. 


The project has two main goals, the first is to start a window farming craze across the states, the second is to give ordinary folks a means to collaborate on research and development through their own site which is www.windowfarms.org.


The project has similar resonances to the plethora of other solutions that are currently evolving across the globe and they state that "growing some of own own food is a simple pleasure that can make a big difference in our relationship with nature. As we choose nutrients to feed plants we hope to eat in turn, we gain experience with a nearly lost fundamental human art, get a microcosmic view of the food system, develop a stake in the conversation, and come up with new ideas for how to take care of ourselves and our planet in troubled times. 


How it works
Each participant in the project makes it easier for the next window farmer to grow some of his/her own food. The system design and instruction sets evolve as each person comes up with ideas for improvements or points out problems we can collectively test solutions proposed by the group.


http://windowfarms.org/
http://our.windowfarms.org/