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    Windowfarmers R&D-I-Y: An Open Source Community Developing Hydroponic Edible Gardens For Urban Windows.

    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 & 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!

    An online community of 40,238 Windowfarmers from around the world. Newest posts:

    wf made from food safe materials with led lights

    May 12, 2013 in Completed Window Farms, made from scratch (without a kit), Materials and Resources, posts with pitcures!, Projects in Process, Version 3.0 Modular Airlift Columns by michandaro

    i wanted to remove plastic from the equation so this is built entirely from fda approved materials. i used food grade silicone tubing in black to reduce algae, food grade silicone sealant to connect tubing to bottom pots, terracotta pots that i sealed with beeswax, gaskets made from cork coasters, net pots made from foodgrade [...]

    Off the Ground – update

    May 8, 2013 in made from scratch (without a kit), Plants, posts with pitcures! by Azi Strawn

    Hi I made a video to update on my plants and my nutrients. As you can see the strawberry plants have really taken off.  I planted two cuttings from a friend’s garden.  She told me these variety usually produce strawberries all summer, which should be ideal for indoor growing conditions. The spinach is looking good. [...]

    by Noomil

    Window jungle

    May 7, 2013 in Completed Window Farms, made from scratch (without a kit), Nutrients, posts with pitcures!, Uncategorized by Noomil

      Hello, I created my window farm about a month and a half ago using this design www.windowfarms.dk    It is a 3 column t-lift system with a large reservoir, and it works very well. I water 15 mins on and 15 mins off in the day and 3 times during the night…every 2 hours [...]

    Problem with planting radishes

    May 5, 2013 in Uncategorized by Ana Karen Mendoza Ramirez

    Hello, my classmates and I made the WF system SAM and we planted radishes. Our questions about it, are why one of the radishes stopped growing? It is very small the container that impedes the roots to grow? Can we transplanted the radish to another larger flower pot? Thank you very much and we look [...]

    Issues with my airlift

    May 5, 2013 in Getting Started, International, made from scratch (without a kit), Materials and Resources, posts with pitcures!, pumps, Version 3.0 Modular Airlift Columns, Water flow by Aurelien F

    Hi all, I’m building my windowfarms based on version 3. I have some problem with the airlift. Air don’t go in my pipe and , of course,  water neither. It’s like blocked by the air inside the pipe. I read some message in the forum. If I well understand for solve my problem I need [...]

    by Ofelia

    Temperature issue

    May 2, 2013 in Uncategorized by Ofelia

    Hi ! I’m using the SAME model and my plants are radish and basils, at what temperature should we put the plant ?

    by Ofelia

    Amount of water in my windowfarm

    May 2, 2013 in Uncategorized by Ofelia

    I am using the SAM model and drops of water are falling into the plants every second, sometimes I think it is a lot of water; Am I doing it right? or should I lower the amount of water that falls into the plants? Thanks!

    OUR OWN WINDOWSFARM

    May 1, 2013 in Completed Window Farms, Curriculum Proposals, Education, electronic components, Getting Started, International, Materials and Resources, our mission, Plants, Uncategorized, Water flow, Windowfarms Project News by Marina Mellado Mendieta

    Hello everybody, I am a student of industrial design that loves plants and the investigation of hydroponic watering. So i have started to design a new kind of Windowsfarm by myself, following the steps of the ready-made process. I am documenting everything in this webpage. http://veggafarm.wordpress.com Any advice!???? =) Hope you like it!

    Issue watering the plants

    April 30, 2013 in Uncategorized by Ana Karen Mendoza Ramirez

    What can I do if water is not enough for the two pots in the bottom of the SAM model?

    Fertilizer

    April 30, 2013 in Uncategorized by Mariana Cossio

    Hello windowfarmers! Some friends and I did our own window farm. We planted radish but we are now in the week 7 and our plants are dying. What should we do? can we use fertilizers? Thank you