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!
Nutrient starter pack… plus some pH adjustment
May 24, 2013 in Nutrients, Plants, Seeking Advice by Matt
Here is the starter pack of nutrients I was reccomended by the hydroponic store. So far, I am rather happy with how this is going. As a control, my hydroponic cumcombers inside have done much better than my traditionally planted cucombers growing outside. This stuff definitely works! The same can be said for my tomatoes, and [...]
First Farm!
May 24, 2013 in Completed Window Farms, Getting Started, made from scratch (without a kit), posts with pitcures! by Matt
Hi All, After much research, advice from you, shopping, scrounging, pondering, trial, and error, I have a nice completed window farm!
Final setup
May 19, 2013 in Uncategorized by Kok
Hi, Some weeks past after my first tests and all is growing very good. After the first setup I tested a few things and end up with this setup what I think is not bad. I painted all bottles white so it reflects the sun light and not warming my water too much and [...]
May 2013 update: New fish tank reservoir….
May 18, 2013 in Being a good member of this community, Completed Window Farms, Education, Featured Post, posts with pitcures!, R&D-I-Y, Seeking Advice, Version 1.0 Reservoir System, Windowfarms Project News by Jeremy
Hey fellow window farmers! I switched out my old gallon green tea jug with this…a football fish tank I’ve had since I was a little kid. There’s a built in filter system too, so hopefully that will help reduce the algae build up. Let me know what you all think!
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 ?