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Recently Signed Up? How To Use This Site!
2:24 pm in Featured Post, Getting Started by Windowfarms
1. Sign Up. If you would like to be a windowfarmer or just participate in the discussion, please register for the site using the gray bar at the top of the page.
2. Get Set Up. Once you have registered and signed in, more options will appear in drop down menus on that top gray bar. Under My Posts click ‘Dashboard’. You’ll find links to edit your profile.
3. Explore the Site. This whole site is one big forum and we use blog posts to start new threads. Use the tabs on the upper right to navigate.
Home: Browse most recent posts.
Groups: Meet Windowfarmers in your area.
Windowfarmers: Lookup individual members.
Activity: See the most recent site activity.
Also use the Category list and Tag Cloud on the right.
4. Post Something! Tell us what you are up to. Post a question or a concern. Roll over My Posts on the gray bar at the top of the page, and click ‘New Post’. Don’t forget to Categorize it and, if you wish, give it a few Tags. This will help later users find your posts and will help the community answer one another’s questions.
5. Engage with other people on the site. Comment on other windowfarmer’s posts or send them messages.
6. Questions? If you are confused about how to use the site or have suggestions that will make the site better, don’t hesitate to email britta@windowfarms.org
Hello all! I have just registered for this site and am thrilled to start my own vegetable garden. I’ve recently started germinating and purchased a strawberry and tomato plant at Lowe’s because I’m tired of waiting. I’m looking forward to building my own window system one day soon! Thank you for making this site so useful and health conscious!
Hello All……I came across this site while looking for hydroponics sites. Plans look great and I am going to try this soon!! Thanks!!
I wanna had info in spanish, i can translate it. I send a email to staff. Nice to be here and now !!
you sent an email to info@windowfarms.org? I don’t think we got it!
just joined this site and im completely intrigued with this system
BUT i have never been successful at growing anything although i feel
great about this!
this is amazing, thanks so much for spreading the word about this brilliant idea! Cant wait to get started …
hi! my friend has a farm in kansas and i was joking with her about my location (14th floor apt in korea) and my inability to grow anything!! she sent me a link to your sight! i am so excited! my husband is in the army, so we move quite often, so this will be perfect for our family! i have 3 children and i wanna get them involved, as well! i just showed the hubby, and he seems interested!! so, we will be starting our research and brainstorming, and hopefully be successful in this project!! i cant wait!!
I´m really excited about window farming but I would like to know if they work outside since I live in central america. There is no danger about frost, and also can I have some shade. How much sun can they stand.
I can help translate this site into Spanish too. I’m in Paraguay now and food is as expensive as in the US! Let me know how I can help
This is such a great idea and I am very excited to start!
hi there…. windowfarmer is a great idea, i am very excited to start and have a experience..
Im excited about this idea, however Im wondering about certain alternatives for the materials you’ve suggested. Example: I never buy 1.5 liter bottles of anything because I dont drink soda and I use a water filter to drink from the tap. once in a while if Im out I’ll buy a big bottle of SMART WATER but thats it. Are there any suggestions about what else we might be able to use?
I found this in the Urban Gardening Magazine. I think this concept is great. I can,t wait to use it and teach others about this.
I have been looking for something like this for a long time. It is a good way to prepare fpr emergency situations and I hope to find out more things similar to this for future reference.
just joined today and confused as to how to get started- how to build my own window farm.
I’m an old Hippie who couldn’t be more thrilled at discovering this alternative way to grow my own veggies. I would welcome a correspondence from anyone who would like to share their farming experiences with me, especially if you’re from the St. Pete/Florida area–but all are welcome to tell me the insights they’ve learned. Please feel free to contact me directly at coffey.j1a@gmail.com. Thanks! Hope to have my own farm up and running soon!
This site could use an update to a more forum bassed layout. more like this: http://www.hipforums.com/
Hi there.
I’m new to the site, and I would like to post something to get feedback on my idea for a modified window farm, but I am unable to write a new post. When I click on ‘new post’, I get this message:
You are not authorized to delete posts in this category.
Any thoughts on why this may be happening? I use Chrome as my browser.
Thanks!
Erika
I had to repeat the signing in process about three or four times to finally get it right. Seems if you get one field wrong, you have to refill three other fields over again (password, age, and hydro experience) . I just think this might drive some people off in frustration.
@John- We know that some people are having trouble registering. It seems to be episodic and I have asked many programmers to help me trace the cause. It seems to be related to the spam prevention aspects of the underlying wordpress site and it seems to spike when we get large surges in traffic such as the TED.com video release. We are currently raising funding through sales of the new windowfarms (http://kck.st/newwindowfarms) to be able to move to a new web platform as this one has been the source of many headaches like this for a long time. I’m sorry to hear that you were one of the ones who ran into the issue. I cannot guarantee that we will have it resolved in the short term, but we will have the larger issues resolved as we start to migrate over the next few months. Thank you for your support. -Britta
Hello to everyone. I just watched the video on TED and I just had to join. I have been looking for an easy way to grow my own food via hydroponics and I believe this is the very solution.
This is a really important development.. maybe not as an economic source for food but as a concsiosness raiser of its value and how long it takes to produce.. the economics on the other hand taking into consideration the lack of transportation of food against high usage of electricity in your pump systems any way … I’m brand new here ..so it’s great to see
all the best
Hello. I watched about the windowfarm in TED yesterday and I thrilled because this will make me to live with the plants! I’m a Korean. So, I’m not good at English. Please help me with making it!
i look forward to doing this project in my back yard. does it work outside as well?
thanks,
karen
I tried growing veggies on my city apartment’s little balcony for a few years, but there is so much air pollution here that I can’t really call anything organic. Next year my building will be renovated and the new owner is garden-friendly, so I’m sure he’d be willing to install a strong curtain bar to hang a window garden from. Being indoors, a garden would be sheltered from most of the soot outside. So far my costs have always greatly exceeded the benefits, but I’m willing to keep trying in the interests of helping to create a better world.
Look up and research on the ‘ Grander ‘ filter to bring the water to life.
Hi anyone from singapore here? What plans is suitable for our climate?
Hi, I was led here by a video on TED. I’m curious of the ambient effects on having a garden within your house/flat, what changes it’ll have to the smell, lighting, production of extra oxygen inside and developments to people’s style of living & diets.
Simply love this! Inventive, creative, collaborative and healthy. Can’t wait to join the ranks of windowfarmers ^^
One of my goals for the semester break (I teach) is to begin an indoor garden. I don’t know anything about it yet, but I saw the video on TED and decided to check it out. This is exciting!
very happy for Sunday morning because i just find this
I spend a lot of time on the road in a Motor Home or parked on our property in Florissant, CO. I may try to put a Windowfarm on the dashboard if I can figure it out. Anybody put one in an RV yet?
Hi Everybody!
I just signed up. I’m excited about incorporating this into my soon-to-be off-grid lifestyle. It seems the pumps are low enough wattage to use solar to power them. This site is all I hope for in collaboration, sustainability, and refusal to eat GMO foods!
i just stumbled across this & I’m in LOVE!!! this is such a fantastic idea! I am going to talk to some folks I know who work with elderly/physically disabled adults & suggest this idea to them. I think it would be a great way to help them feel useful to themselves by giving them a way to sustain some of their own needs without having to do the strenuous weeding & tilling of a traditional garden. Thanks so much & I will be back here getting plans for my own soon!
Hi everyone
I have just started an aqua-ponics system at my work ( that is where i spend most of my time, unfortunately :~)), and am very exited to be able to outsource everything I learn on this project, and all my projects. My second step to a self sustainable off-the-grid-lifestyle. I believe that all things good for humanity should be open sourced!! I hope I can help and learn on this site :~)
Just found out about this today. I volunteer my time at an elementary school and plan on setting one up in the classroom. I think this is an excellent way for the kids to learn while doing. Thanks for such an innovative idea.
Haribol! I just found this on Yahoo! and I’m so excited because I’ve been wanting to grow my own salads in the winter in my windows. We eat a ton of salad greens and it can get very expensive this time of year.
I just read about this and very excited to get started in a few weeks, I have tried to start my own garden here twice and it didnt work out even when I tried Miracle Grow that is pretty bad huh : ) , I am looking forward to having a garden that grows and I can enjoy!! Thank You!!!
Hi Everyone,
I watched a TED video about this and decided what a great idea and I just love anything ‘open source’.
I have a lot of ideas about how to do some things for free, like clockwork air pumps and plastic tube recovered from the outer part of old clothes lines. The challenge for me is to be growing things for virtually no cost. I look forward to sharing ideas with you all.
Santa brought me everything I need for start-up! Anyone in Maryland?
I am really looking forward to getting involved with this. I have no gardening experience so I am really starting from scratch. It’s great to have a community to share ideas and questions with.
so do i prefer to have spanish info, is it possible?
i coud share this innovation with my friends here in Uruguay.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERY ONE!
Hi everybody, I am just delving a bit deeper into the matter and am quite curious.