Edible Window Gardens in New York

If you want to make this world a greener place but seed bombing sunflowers or planting tulip bulbs in public spaces is too guerrilla for your taste, window farming might be right up your alley.

Window Farms are "vertical, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield edible window gardens built using low-impact or recycled local materials." Hydroponic means: "growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions, in water, without soil."
The project serves two goals:

1. to start a Windowfarming craze in New York City and other dense urban areas, helping people grow some of their food year-round in their apartment windows.
2. give ordinary folks a means to collaborate on research and development of these vertical hydroponic food-growing curtains through the community site at our.windowfarms.org

Apparently you can grow anything leafy and green, essentially. You can’t grow carrots and you can’t grow root vegetables. Potatoes, garlic, those things don’t work. The kinds of plants you can grow in a windowfarm include cherry tomatoes, small cucumbers, beans, strawberries, peppers, peas, lettuce, and of course, herbs.

Hat tip to http://eil.net/.