window farms
Window Farms are suspended, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield edible food gardens built using low-impact or recycled local materials. This site is the online community of window farmers, where we share our development processes and design innovations. The designs evolve through this online collaboration of individuals.
These vertical gardens, located in windows throughout the cityscape, are intended to inspire others to design and implement their own window farms, creating a network of urban food production. Signs in the windowfarms will challenge people to create their own and direct them to a website where we can all share photos, plans, designs, and information.
Together, we are deriving viable methods for growing food under the local conditions of our own homes.
To learn more about The Windowfarms Project, see windowfarms.org.
To learn how to build your own, get started with our how to instructions – the easiest one is here — or start reading posts from other window farmers throughout this site.
Please share your design process with the other farmers by joining the site and sharing your design and development process.
If you would like to join the site, please get started here.
IMPORTANT ELECTRICAL SAFETY UPDATE TO ALL WINDOWFARMS INSTRUCTIONS
- The cords for you pump, all lights, and any other electrical equipment near your windowfarm should make a “U-shape” dip before before coming back up to the outlet to ensure that water will never reach the wall plug under any circumstances. In this configuration, if a water droplet lands on the cord, gravity will drag it down the bottom of the dip and it will go to the floor instead of going into the electrical socket . This is called a drip-loop (Click the link for more information).
- Water container should never be located directly above a wall plug.
Please check your windowfarm to make sure you have your cords oriented to comply with this! Thanks! – Britta
