Windowfarmers R&D-I-Y

Window Farms

Windowfarms let you grow food year-round inside while maximizing space. They are vertical food-growing gardens that use a dirt-free technique called hydroponics. You can buy a kit or build your own using low-impact or recycled local materials. Having a windowfarm is more about the activity and experience of windowfarming, these are living systems, not just a pretty thing to look at.

This site is the online community of windowfarmers around the world. Together, we are continually getting better at growing food in the local conditions of our own homes. We are contributing to the “green revolution” as non-experts. We call it R&D-I-Y, or research and develop it yourself. We use this site to collaborate on evolving designs for these vertical hydroponic systems– proposing experiments, testing techniques, and developing a shared knowledge base around the many variables involved in building and maintaining a farm inside a city apartment. Welcome!

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NEW! How To: V3.0 MAMA w/participatory instructions (beta)

* quieter
* easier to set up
* more elegant, but still do-able with recycled water bottles
* more plants for less electrical input (up to 32 plants on one air pump)
* modular, meaning you can have vegetative, fruiting, and flowering plants all in one system

and the participatory web guide routes your ideas, questions, sketches, discussion, & issues for R&D-I-Y while you build with the new FEEDBACK tab.

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Automatic Worm Tea Supply

Okay, here’s one to add your thoughts to:
Having read this, I was wondering whether one couldn’t build a compact WF-AWTS using a (large) bottle.
I think it’ll be quite easy to do one in my farm setup, but may be more difficult in the normal configuration.
I was thinking of a bottle with the bottom cut off, [...]

Windowfarms in Amsterdam

I will be in Amsterdam between the 10th and 15th of September to install a Windowfarm for an exhibition. If you’re interested in being a part of a workshop or informal meetups during this time, contact me directly at michael@windowfarms.org
Michael
Windowfarms Community Developer

Classes or Workshops?

Are there any classes or workshops planned for the Vancouver or Fraser Valley area of British Columbia? If so I would love to join. Does anyone know how to add your own blog to the blog list? I would like to share my own blog on raw living foods.

planting in a couple weeks…suggestions?

Hi Everyone,
I’ve really enjoyed reading all of the posts and getting an idea of what people are doing.  I’ve finally just completed building my first column, following the excellent directions provided by WindowFarms…Version 3.o…they were quite clear and the photos were very helpful.  I do plan on building three more for my apartment, but since [...]

Low light plants?

Hi all,
Haven’t tried these windowfarms yet but I’ve been reading about hydroponics for years.  I’d like to give this a shot, except I have very little light in my apt.  My windows face East and there’s a giant building 6 feet outside my door, so I get about 2.5 hours of direct sunlight in the [...]

350.org and 10/10/2010

Hi all!
I would like to encourage everyone who is capable, to host a windowfarms kit building class on October 10th 2010 in your area.
It is a special day for http://www.350.org Please register your event there. Or search for an event in your area and collaborate!
350 is the parts per million that scientists suggest is the maximum [...]

Window Farms and 350.org on 10/10/10

Hi all!
I would like to encourage everyone in the windowfarm community to consider hosting an action party on 10/10/2010 for 350.org!
350.org is an international community effort to encourage positive climate change initiatives in governments all around the world.
10/10 is the chosen date to celebrate success thus far, and to educate others on the importance of [...]

Pre -School-teachers unite!

Hello Out There!
I just purchased a kit for our classroom and was wondering if anyone has done this project with 2- 3 yr. olds of course with parents helping?

My second attempt…

My first farm was 3 x 1.5L soda bottles mounted together according to V2 design, and with the modified airlift system.
It worked… but my plants(2 strawberry and a chili plant) didn’t survive my vacation.
So, if I hadto start the plants over, why notthe farm, too?

This new design is based on the same airlift as I know it works [...]

Instruction and Diagram

I am pretty handy and work well on computers.
It took me 3 times to get a password that works.
I am now in the system and cannot find an instruction and diagram so I can build my own.
HELP

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