Think of a farm in a window

I am currently reading a book about urban farming (Farm City by Novella Carpenter) where Novella plants fruit trees and vegetables, raises rabbits, ducks and chickens, and keeps a beehive on a vacant lot next to her apartment building. It's a very interesting book. But for all those city dwellers without a vacant lot next to their home a lady called Britta Riley came up with growing food in plastic bottels hang in the window. It's sounds crazy but seems to work as there is a community developing all over the world that tries their luck at window farming. Thanks to these people the system of how to best window farm keeps improving. A few handyman skills might be needed to set up the garden.  

I have not read much about it yet but am keen on finding out what window works best. We have East and South facing windows which in a place like Edmonton guarantees us to receive a certain amount of daylight even in winter. Unfortunately, I have noticed though that the leaves of my plants tend to burn if they stand too close to the window. I do miss the balcony we had at our old place and community gardens are rather rare in Edmonton. In some European countries such as the UK or Germany it is common to have a strip of land near or in the city set up with gardens. In German we called it "Laubenkolonie". That's where city dwellers have their garden plots to grow flowers, fruit, veggies, and hang out, meet neighbours. The plots tend to have "huts" too that serve as tool shed as well as space for the family to have meals and hang out, store garden furniture and toys. 

http://www.greenmuze.com/nurture/urban/2506-urban-window-farming-.html
http://www.windowfarms.org/