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* quieter
* easier to set up
* more elegant, but still do-able with recycled water bottles
* more plants for less electrical input (up to 32 plants on one air pump)
* modular, meaning you can have vegetative, fruiting, and flowering plants all in one system

and the participatory web guide routes your ideas, questions, sketches, discussion, & issues for R&D-I-Y while you build with the new FEEDBACK tab.

Get involved in R&D-I-Y (research and develop it yourself)! Test and contribute innovations to making windowfarms better environmentally, educationall, nutritionally, and socially! Learn about the community’s goals here.

This is a repost from the “Minnesota” group, because I posted there before I actually figured out how to make a proper post:
A friend of mine showed me a ”window farm” of hers using no hydroponic equipment at all.
It used just a simple system in which the water wicks up through a porous rope that runs [...]

After problems with not getting enough nutrient to my system (stalling air-lift) I now have the opposite problem, waterlogged plants!
The airlift is providing too much flow and the seedlings are getting too much watering – there cannot be enough air getting to them
After having a good laugh at the prices of interval timer/switch units I [...]

This is a simple DIY way to make a reflector for a compact florescent (CFL) bulb.
There are many situations where you are lighting a plant and half the light coming from the bulb is going out your window, on the floor, or into you living room. A lot of this wasted light can be redirected [...]

This video was taken more recently on March 30th, 2010:
silox – 1st Week Progress and 2nd Vertical Plant Tower w/ New Plants – March 30th, 2010
This is an update after the 1st week of growing in the 1st vertical plant tower and after building/planting in the 2nd vertical tower of our hydroponic window farm.
We have [...]

The answer is generally, yes, you probably do need to supplement the light coming into your window in order to grow light-loving vegetable plants.
If these plants are going to be nutrient packed enough to be worth your while growing them and investing all this time, you should give them the light they need to [...]

Please check out the excellent work of the Finnish Windowfarms team. This shot is a sneak preview of them installing the first few LED lights on the windowfarm they made out of Finnish recyclables in the window of the Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki.
Their work on adapting the Windowfarms Project for Finland is part [...]

Several climate researchers I met at the Tipping Point conference on climate change at the Earth Institute Dec 7-8 had words of encouragement for the Windowfarms project. Climate scientists are increasingly taking an interest in social factors. New areas of climate-related research are emerging in the social sciences. Several of these researchers told me [...]