Gardening is one of your passions, but you don't have enough space or, even worse, don't even own a terrace? No problem Britta Rileye Rebecca Bray have seen fit to help you. In fact, in 2009 the “Windowfarm” project was born, proposing the cultivation of plants in one's own apartment. Not only for ornamental purposes, but also for food, growing organic vegetables despite not having a house in the countryside.
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Gardening is one of your passions, but you don't have enough space or, even worse, don't even own a terrace? No problem Britta Rileye Rebecca Bray they have seen fit to help you. In fact, the project was born in 2009 “Windowfarm” which proposes the growing plants in your own apartment. Not only for ornamental purposes, but also for food, making it grow organic vegetables despite not having a house in the countryside.
The gimmick is decidedly ingenious and essentially based on recycling. In fact, using plastic bottles, glasses and various pipes you can create a real vegetable garden even in a small two-room apartment in the center of a crowded western metropolis.
The idea develops totally using windows as a place of growth. By placing water tanks on top of them, made from simple plastic pipes to which a series of holes will be drilled to feed the vessels below.
These pots, with the plants inside, will be placed in some plastic bottles communicating with each other which, fed in cascade by the tube coming from the tank, will collect the water in free fall and return it to the main tank.
A system much easier to do than to say that, in fact, seeing the photo below I think it can be deduced by anyone:
Windowfarm wants to stimulate city dwellers to grow part of their food inside their homes, but not only. Indeed, it is our intention to create a web platform that allows citizens to innovate in a collaborative way. In this way, ideal solutions can be found to make cities more sustainable by using locally available materials.
If the procedure is still not completely clear, you just have to download the instructions (http://www.windowfarms.org/howto/3plantairliftHOWTO_3_4_10.pdf) and get to work. Happy harvest citizens!
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