The brainchild of Rebecca Bray and Britta Riley, the Window Farms project has a few primary goals: to sow the seeds for a citywide craze, encouraging New Yorkers and other beleaguered urbanites (that could mean us too, right?) to grow their own food, and spark further research and development collaborations.
There's a huge Window Farm hanging at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in Chelsea. Check the pictures and take notes.
If rigging up a contraption of basins, reservoirs, and tubes looks daunting, do not give up. According to Kale Daikon of WV, "if you can build a geodesic dome or trick out your bike in elaborate ways for Burning Man, then you can definitely pull together some plastic water bottles, PVC piping, net planters, and fluorescent light bulbs to reproduce this hanging Eden based on the how-to instructions provided by the Window Farms Project."
While we admire this innovative, sustainable, and altruistic application of hydroponics know-how, we also think these Window Farms could be bigger than Christmas lights. Somebody get Don Draper on the phone.
