Farewell Horizontal! Window Farms...
April 26, 2010 by hughbarnard
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Big Kudos to anyone who can tell me [no Googling] which obscure science fiction writer used the title. He was obsessed by P. K. Dick too, man had quite good taste.
Anyways, people from Okcon came over on Sunday, after the conference, and one of them showed me, Window Farms, what great fun and a good mixture of the geeky and the greenie, all in one package.
Actually, pothole gardening and window farming are radically different. Pothole gardening is basically middle-class, cutesy-pie agitprop, whereas window farming provides [a little] food, community and improves the state of informal value-engineering style hydroponics.
My own feeling is that the 'new' cities will be something like Havana, agriculture penetrating into the cities [remember the maraichers], livestock on the roof with the solar panels. Pothole gardening doesn't move us towards this..
hughbarnard 751 days ago
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If you don't want to block out your light with a window farm, try pothole gardening - see http:/
Michael Calderbank 753 days ago