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Hi all,
Haven’t tried these windowfarms yet but I’ve been reading about hydroponics for years.  I’d like to give this a shot, except I have very little light in my apt.  My windows face East and there’s a giant building 6 feet outside my door, so I get about 2.5 hours of direct sunlight in the [...]

Hello World! First post on windowfarms, yaay!
I run a small web-community for caring consumers called Caresumers (it’s all in swedish so don’t bother if you don’t speak swedish )
We and some friends want to give the Windowfarms-project a push here in Stockholm, so we are looking for a public building with big windows in [...]

I was wondering : will the Windowfarm system work if installed on my balcony ? For some reasons, I would like to install this farm outside. Takes less space during the summer.
My balcony is on the north side of the building, so there is no direct sunlight. But I guess I have to consider wind, [...]

Hi!
I’m building a window farm that will be run entirely by gravity and simple machines.  I’m doing fine working out the physics and engineering part, but I have a biology question that I can’t quite seem to find the answer to.
How much nutrient mix per day (not solution, but nutrients themselves) assuming a run-of-the-mill nutrient [...]

After leaving the comforts of my thriving garden in suburban California, I now find myself in a hectic, crazy Third World country. The produce here is just terrible, and what’s available is soooo expensive. I miss eating from my own garden, and so this seems like the perfect cure for my woes. I’ll be smuggling [...]

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just stumbled across this site and i’m completely fascinated by the idea of a windowfarm!  unfortunately, my funds are pretty limited, so i’m looking for ways to simplify the design.  i don’t know much about hydroponics – but would it be possible to just set up the basic hanging structure and water the plants by [...]

 
I have a very nice window farm.  I built it with two holes on either side of the bottle to allow 2 plants to grow out each side.  This has been working very well and my plants are taking over my window, yay! As I was trimming some dead leaves I started wondering, why have holes [...]

I have discovered a growing (no pun intended) love for gardening in the past several months, and in perusing the internet trying to learn everything I can, I stumbled upon your website.  I absolutely love it: I am so excited about becoming a window farmer!  What a fantastic way to bring green living into city [...]

I’m looking for advice on finding a rectangular reservoir, and on running an airlift tube up the center of my bottles instead of up the outside.