Name: A garden in my apartment
Uploaded: 2011-11-25T16:18:14Z
Duration: 7 min 35 s
Description: Britta Riley wanted to grow her own food (in her tiny apartment). So she and her friends developed a system for growing plants in discarded plastic bottles -- researching, testing and tweaking the system using social media, trying many variations at once and quickly arriving at the optimal system. Call it distributed DIY. And the results? Delicious.

Britta Riley wanted to grow her own food (in her tiny apartment). So she and her friends developed a system for growing plants in discarded plastic bottles -- researching, testing and tweaking the system using social media, trying many variations at once and quickly arriving at the optimal system. Call it distributed DIY. And the results? Delicious.

A garden in my apartment

Harnessing collective ingenuity, city dwellers have turned cramped apartments into thriving gardens using vertical hydroponics and shared experimentation. In just two years, a global network of over 18,000 participants tested and improved window farms, using social media to exchange designs and solve problems faster than experts alone. By empowering ordinary people to innovate together, this movement delivers not just fresh salads from city windows but real community and environmental impact.