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When I first saw this website, I thought it was great on so many levels. My group of friends store food ,and growing some indoors year-round fits in with that concept of thinking about the future ,when the country may suffer food shortages. As a 6th grade teacher, I am going to have the students [...]

Video of child’s aquaponic windowfarm

This is a summary of our build and experience so far.
Our window frame measures 75” x 31” so we thought two columns with five rows (ten containers total) would work well. We decided to use the recommended 1.5 liter water bottles for the containers, but instead of cutting one outlet per bottle, we decided to [...]

I have just completed my windowfarm. A three step airlift system with the airlift tube inside the bottles. I was planing to do a four step system, but the pump could not pump up the water all the way.

The plants i have right now is (from above) habanero, cherry tomato and strawberry. I’m running the system with [...]

Alternate pump performance data
In the spirit of R&D, here is the performance data to my alternate pump design that  I had shown in my first post.  http://our.windowfarms.org/2010/03/10/just-getting-started-with-slightly-different-pump-design/  The design is easy to assemble and has been very reliable.
 The data shows the relationship between resevoir height, pumping height and flow rates.   I do not know how the air [...]

Ran across your site a while back and thought I would give it a try.  Spring is almost here and I am iching to do some gardening.  I made a free standing system since I have nothing to hang it from.  I had most of the parts laying around like the pump from the kids [...]

We are almost there on kits, Folks. We would love your input on a couple of things.
For more about why we are making kits, read this.

Here’s how kits are looking.
You will choose between a 2-column or 4-column windowfarm. You WILL have to be able to screw at least 4 screws into your upper [...]

So, here’s the thing about collective R&D. It isn’t pretty. Just like science, a lot of times, things don’t work out right at first and sometimes they never do. But you learn a lot as you try to fix them. We are all working through this together and these things will be awesome and foolproof [...]

I’m attempting to build a version of the Airlift Window Farm without plastic parts.

The initial version uses stainless steel tumblers, sisal rope, metal crimps, a glass reservoir, and natural latex tubing. The only plastic part is the air pump. Everything was purchased fairly inexpensively (mostly on the Bowery in NYC).
You can find images of the [...]

We are building the easier three bottle window farm, and have put it together according to the directions, but aren’t getting a drip!
Should we make sure the needle entrances are properly sealed or make a smaller drip exit?
Help us out!
Sami