Mirabel Osler rightly said, “There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.” Everyone wants to have a beautiful garden in his or her house but unfortunately, city houses usually do not have these options, and if they do, you have to pay a high price for it. In the midst of such a scenario, Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray’s Window Farms is surely supposed to make many people happy.
Window Farms
The artists have developed a DIY system, whereby you can create your very own “suspended, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield light-augmented” vertical garden right inside your home, in your window.
A dozen or so candidates have volunteered for building their own window farms after the prototype was showcased last week at Eyebeam. All these gardens will be displayed in high-profile windows throughout NYC from May 31 to July 14, motivating New Yorkers to adopt this technique at their homes.
The prototype shown at Eyebeam showed numerous vertical columns with re-purposed water bottles each holding a potted plant. It also showed a water tub that is placed above the window farm, allowing water to pass through the columns. A catch basin, placed at the bottom, catches the water that is not absorbed by the plants.
Future Plans
Though, the main motive of the designers is to inform New Yorkers that food can be grown right inside their homes, Brita and Rebecca vision their idea as part of a project called R&DIY( Research and Do-It-yourself). They intend to make use of social networks to bring about change on a local scale in the future.
This technique, if successful, could solve a number of problems. Daily we come across articles emphasizing the importance of locally grown food. If this technique becomes successful, we could consume our home- made food, saving a lot both in terms of eco-resources as well as money.
Via: Inhabitat