From hydroponic window vegetable patches to beautiful beehives, new designs are making farming accessible to those without acres of land by bringing it into the home.
A combination of factors including a loss of faith in globalised food manufacturing, concerns about the chemicals and additives common in factory farming, and the rising cost of living are contributing to the popularity of home farming. Once conceptual ideas that enable people to do this are now filtering into the mainstream, with a range of mass-market products emerging to meet the needs of space-poor urbanites keen to have a closer involvement in the food they consume.