Window Farms Introduction

Window Farms is a project that helps people grow food in urban windows through crowdsourced research and development of DIY hydroponic vertical gardening. windowfarms.org

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• art science
• diy
• r&d
• installation
• environment
• garden
• farm
• grow
• food
• edible
• hydroponics
• vertical gardening

[lobosolo0333]

Nitpick ... healthier (not more healthy); inexpensive easily accessible ... cheap and easily found ...

We called these hanging planters when I was a youngster, but we used dirt. Still, the concept is the same.

[greenearthnazi20204u]

thank you

[sk8bow]

but what about the jobs of the middle man?

[damianfors]

@saeidmomtahan The we must use reciclated materials :D

[saeidmomtahan]

The main problem I have with any and all these designs is that we're still using plastics in all phases of growth. This is not a good thing. I know it's very difficult to get away from plastics now a days.

In some countries Bamboo would be a good alternative .

[saeidmomtahan]

@TheBradanAnderson Why is it not viable? It is as viable as you can make it

[saeidmomtahan]

@wilhat

It should work. I was working on the same setup, called Aquaponics, all day today. The air/water feeding system didn't work unfortunetly, so I stopped. But will go at it again tomorrow. It will work though, I'm sure.

[blutch222]

@basilbrushnz Cows have to eat something. A great % of crops are being used to create food for those cows.

[wilhat]

hi this i great idea but what habbens if you can not buy the growing feed for the plants can you make your own some one was yousing fish in a tank to make the food would this work in small places.

[TheBradanAnderson]

this is not new, vertical grows have been used by pot-farmers for a while. they are just hipsters gathering in a room, drawing pictures, making crappy vertical grows and pretending like their forward thinkers... wth. this is not a viable idea really.