I am a current volunteer at an orphanage in India. It is an amazing organization called LoveDale. http://www.lovedalefoundation.org

They make aound 150 meals everyday and buy most of their vegetables 4 miles away and have to make this trip, by foot, approximately every 2 days. As LoveDale is a not-for-profit organisation, this incurs costs that could be better spent elsewhere.

Our intention is to create a vegetable garden, providing foods such as tomatoes, onions, garlic and chillies, among others, that are the staple ingredients in the meals prepared here. The vegetable plot is a narrow strip, approx. 24 inches in depth but approx. 100 feet long (roughly 30 metres). We feel that this is adequate room to, if not feed the school for a year, to grow enough food to significantly reduce the costs incurred in purchasing and time undertaken to do this.

Having decided to undertake this project, we have come across one main issue and it’s a pretty significant one: we have a serious lack of water. Plenty of sun, plenty of space, not plenty of water. But having watched your TED talk on window farms in New York, we have been inspired to make this project work. We KNOW it can work.

So, why am I emailing you? Well, although inspired, we are not blessed with a huge amount of knowledge on this issue and also a huge amount of resources in terms of time to make sure it runs efficiently on a regular basis, i am asking for some advice on how to implement a watering system where water is a limited resource.

If you have a few moments, maybe you could offer some advice or even point us in the direction of people, websites or organisations that could help us.

Your time and efforts would be EXTREMELY welcome

Thank you for your time

Sincerely

Manuel Centeno

Our first windowfarm!
http://our.windowfarms.org/2012/02/07/the-sanders-farm/

Hello Everyone, I am new to this site and have built my window farm from the 3.0 instructions with some alterations due to some materials being very hard to find here in Israel and also some improvements. I made a video:
http://youtu.be/kOQVhn4Rzew

I started with pea seeds in 3, 1.5 liter bottles and one reservoir bottle with 4 seeds in each bottle and they all grew quite fast on only water and are now around 8 cm in height (except one seed which I removed from the top bottle and the other two in the same bottle are about half the size as the forth one, but in the other bottles all four are uniform in size). It looks a bit crowded in there though and I was wondering wether or not to remove some from each bottle?

Also I had trouble finding any place with hydroponics equipment and nutrients so I got a liquid fertilizer for herbs and vegetables instead with instructions on applying to plants in soil.

It says on the bottle that it contains:

N – General Nitrogen – 3.5%

P – P2O5 – 1.5%

K- K2O – 3%

Iron – Fe – 2%

contains microelements (whatever that means)

Is this usable? how much of this should I add?

Thanks

hi all!! just found out there r more freaks like me:D ill post some pics when i get started..thinking about solarpower since my farm will be situated on the south…gonna collect me some suitable supplies 1st….
greets from breedje dizzle