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!
Volunteers for the war on spam?
May 8, 2012 in Uncategorized by Windowfarms
Dear Windowfarmers, Can you volunteer a few hours to deleting spam user accounts? Internet scanning robots that produce spam comments have found a way to penetrate our site. They have broken through all of the typical protections for these online communities. We have been combatting them through a variety of methods, but the spammers have top hackers [...]
New windowfarms at www.windowfarms.com
December 14, 2011 in Uncategorized by Windowfarms
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Customer service for new windowfarms
May 4, 2012 in Uncategorized by Windowfarms
If anyone needs to talk to us about customer service for the new Windowfarms, please contact me directly at my email address: destiny@windowfarms.org. This is the most efficient way to get in touch with us at the moment. It might take me several days to respond, but I will respond! We have found that spam filters [...]
maintenance mode of a windowfarm in Vienna
May 16, 2012 in Being a good member of this community, Completed Window Farms, Education, made from scratch (without a kit), Materials and Resources, posts with pitcures!, Projects in Process, Uncategorized by Joha Eben
the windowfarm columns are moveable – they can be swiveled 90 degrees (horizontal). Here are some pics of the maintenance mode of a windowfarm in Vienna at a night in the middle of May 2012.
Balcony Botany
May 15, 2012 in International, made from scratch (without a kit), Outside Farms, posts with pitcures!, Projects in Process, R&D-I-Y by dan green
Hi all! Firstly I’d like to express my deep appreciation to all those who have shared their ideas on this site. I love that the basic ideas can be adapted and applied to whatever circumstances you find yourself in. In my case, living in a 1 room box apartment in Japan, it is impractical for [...]
Wooden-frame windowfarm from Montreal (unique uplift system)
May 15, 2012 in Completed Window Farms, Getting Started, made from scratch (without a kit), posts with pitcures! by Kris s
My first attempt at a windowfarm followed Ver2 from the website pretty closely. I built it at a friends place though and it got neglected for several weeksand everything died.My current incarnation is the result of my desire to combine woodworking with vertical gardening. It is still very primitive and I would change a lot of [...]
New instrctionsvideos
May 14, 2012 in Uncategorized by Kristoffer Nolgren
We have been developing the design of the windowfarm. We created four videos on how to build the improved(easier to build, lesser parts and more sun for the plants) version. All speech is in swedish, but some of the imagery might be useful anyways. http://konstruktioner.info/instruktioner/ Enjoy!
help
May 12, 2012 in Completed Window Farms, Featured Post, Getting Started, How-Tos, made from scratch (without a kit), Nutrients, Nutrition, Plants, Seeking Advice, Water flow by kristopher margett
morning all, i’ve finished my window farm (see video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TvAkpSl1pE&feature=plcp ) and it’s working a treat, i’ve planted some micro tomatoes in each of the pots and a small black truffle tomato plant at the top, which i don’t hold out hope for to be honest. the question is am i doing something wrong? i left [...]
Saying Hi!
May 9, 2012 in Being a good member of this community, International, Outside Farms by Alicia Dalmau
Hi everyone! I’m so happy to be part of this group! I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has started their own WF, I hope to be starting one soon. I’m still researching and you posts have been super helpfull! I just showed my little sister your page and she is super [...]
Help…..water issues for the garden
May 8, 2012 in Uncategorized by Lynn Wall
I have built the system with the 4 columns, purchased the recommended air pump and still am not having any luck getting the plumbing system to work. Therefore, I am not able to hydrate the garden. Spoke directly to Petco and they no longer make the Petco air pumps you all have recommended. The one [...]
Window Farm Hits The News!!!
May 8, 2012 in Being a good member of this community, Completed Window Farms, Curriculum Proposals, Education, Featured Post, International, made from scratch (without a kit), Meetings, our mission, posts with pitcures!, Projects in Process, Uncategorized, Windowfarms Project News by C.J. Chavez
After building and having a working Window Farm. One of my teachers went to Grand Junction, Colorado for a well known Energy Expo. Where everbody gathers and we present the different and new technologies of Renewable Energy. Anyway after our teacher returns we find out that my personal Window Farm that me and partner built [...]
Open plant “bottles”?
May 7, 2012 in Getting Started, questions, Seeking Advice by Nicholas Stephan
Hi, I’m brand new to this forum, window farms, and hydroponics, so forgive me if I ask a lot of stupid questions up front. First stupid question: In the v3 DIY instructions it says to use whole bottles for the plants, with a “plant hole” cut out of the side, creating something of a half [...]