the great leslie

I ran into my awesome friend Britta the other day under the JMZ train in Brooklyn, the neighborhood where I now work. She caught me up on all she's been doing, which includes getting ready for a one-day installation of her Window Farms project at the Whitney! 

Window Farms is a system for city-dwellers to grow food stuffs in the windows of their apartments. Lettuce, tomatoes, herbs, squash, and other vegetables. A large Window Farm will be on display at the Whitney's Family Day on October 4 between 1pm and 4pm. Kits for making your own window farm will also be available.

I've been helping get ready for the big day by filling up dirt packets for the kits and scrubbing some of the recycled materials to make them museum-ready. It isn't my project, of course, but I'm feeling some joy in working on something that will be on display at a world-famous museum for an entire day!