Skyfarm brings the traditional kitchen garden to high rise apartments

With the growing population and unprecedented levels of human consumption, earth in the 21st century is badly distressed and it is only a matter of time before we as a race would need to seriously start looking at alternative methods of producing our food. Designer Manuel Dreesmann believes that the future of agriculture lies not in crops genetically engineered to boost production but in bringing food production closer to the cities to avoid the unnecessary waste of fuel that occurs during transportation.

Skyfarm

Since a vast majority of the world’s population now lives in high rises in the cities, having family gardens to grow veggies and herbs in are pretty much a phenomenon of the past. However, since most apartments and office buildings are built with at least one balcony space, the concept of the kitchen garden could be revived and revamped to suit the minimal space that each home has in the form of a balcony.

The Skyfarm concept draws on the notion of using the otherwise neglected balcony space for a more purposeful use. Since most people might still want to use their balcony to occasionally sit or stand in the open air every once in a while, the Skyfarm concept proposes the use of overhead space on the balcony for food production.

At the heart of the concept lies a molded acrylic sphere which can contain enough soil to grow a single patch of herbs or even tomatoes and other veggies that can be grown in a relatively small and restricted space. Users can choose to have a few of these hanging overhead on their balconies or just a few herbs. Since the user will be growing all these foods on their own, they can ensure that their food is pesticide and chemical fertilizer free, thus a 100 percent organic.

Source: MDre