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Green Gift Ideas: WindowFarms Urban Indoor Farm

1 by Karen MacKay on December 2, 2011

Grow fresh herbs and veggies year round in your apartment with WindowFarms!

Editor's Note: We're getting into the holiday spirit here at Crisp Green, which means helping you find the crispest, greenest, most innovative gifts for all the tech and design geeks on your list! Check back often, because we'll be featuring a new gift idea almost every day between now and December 25th. Happy Holidays!

Last year we showed you the WindowFarms DIY kit as a great way to grow fresh herbs and veggies indoors and year-round. This year, WindowFarms is back but with a new design and a fully fabricated product. Still providing the same great benefits on an indoor, vertical hydroponic system but much easier to install. Offering a hanging and self-standing model, WindowFarms can fit just about anywhere!

Coolest Thing about WindowFarms: WindowFarms uses hydroponic growing methods rather than soil, so it's lightweight and uses much less water than soil-based growing.

Perfect Gift Idea For: City folk who want to grow their own food but just don't have the space. Great for novices all the way up to experts. Whether you have grown your own food for years or claim to have a "black thumb", WindowFarms is easy to use and maintain for just about anyone.

How You Can Get One: WindowFarms is currently raising funds on Kickstarter for their new design. Just pledge $99 or more and you are all set to grow at home! The Kickstarter campaign ends December 7, 2011 so order soon.

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Karen MacKay is an industrial designer and glass artist currently focusing her work on urban agriculture solutions and habits for urban wildlife. Karen’s interest in art began as early as her first memories. Throughout high school and college she explored various mediums, including painting, drawing, sculpture and glass blowing. In 2002 Karen graduated from the University of North Carolina Asheville with a BA in Philosophy and recently graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Master of Industrial Design. Since an early age, Karen has maintained a passionate relationship with both art and nature. She loves to spend time in the outdoors, usually with her dog Abbey. As a designer, her expertise in sustainable design integrates her passion for all things natural and her insatiable desire to create. Karen has worked as a sustainability consultant to various design and architecture firms and is currently continuing to develop a vertical farming device for in-home use.

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