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| Window Farms are vertical, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield edible window gardens built using low-impact or recycled local materials |
Goal 1
to start a Windowfarming craze in New York City and other dense urban areas, helping people grow some of their food year-round in their apartment windows.
Goal 2
give ordinary folks a means to collaborate on research and development of these vertical hydroponic food-growing curtains through the community site at our.windowfarms.org
The Windowfarms Project operates in what seems a small niche, but we hope it might be what Buckminster Fuller would call a "trim tab," a small part that turns giant ships by being particularly well placed.
Growing some of our own food is a simple pleasure that can make a big difference in our relationship with nature. As we choose nutrients to feed plants we hope to eat in turn, we gain experience with a nearly-lost fundamental human art, get a microcosmic view of the food system, develop a stake in the conversation, and come up with new ideas for how to take care of ourselves and our planet in troubled times.
Let's make this experience possible for anyone!
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| Window Farms are vertical, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield edible window gardens built using low-impact or recycled local materials |
Goal 1
to start a Windowfarming craze in New York City and other dense urban areas, helping people grow some of their food year-round in their apartment windows.
Goal 2
give ordinary folks a means to collaborate on research and development of these vertical hydroponic food-growing curtains through the community site at our.windowfarms.org
The Windowfarms Project operates in what seems a small niche, but we hope it might be what Buckminster Fuller would call a "trim tab," a small part that turns giant ships by being particularly well placed.
Growing some of our own food is a simple pleasure that can make a big difference in our relationship with nature. As we choose nutrients to feed plants we hope to eat in turn, we gain experience with a nearly-lost fundamental human art, get a microcosmic view of the food system, develop a stake in the conversation, and come up with new ideas for how to take care of ourselves and our planet in troubled times.
Let's make this experience possible for anyone!
Rating: 4.50 (2 votes)
Dear Friends,
The Windowfarms Project is making a big leap and we need your help.
Before he died, my passionately environmental engineer/inventor grandpa talked to me about a challenge our generation would face: the complex systems his generation had set up turned out not to be as healthy for ourselves or the rest of the natural world and too few people comprehend or are involved in the decisions that operate them.
I started The Windowfarms Project as a grassroots way to start to address a nexus in these issues-- our food system-- and to give ordinary people a way of participating in the "green revolution." Over the last year, through an organized online collaboration of regular folks, we "windowfarmers" have designed a system for growing nutritious veggies in the windows of homes in a way that looks like an elegant garden/fountain. We have given away the plans and shown anyone how to make them out of cheap, easily accessible and recycled materials. Us windowfarmers are ongoingly testing new techniques and sharing results online to make windowfarms continually more efficient, more productive, more nutritious, quieter, prettier, and more tasty.
The project has been exceedingly popular (worldwide, even!)-- so much so that it has grown past my capacity to manage it and financially support the work to be done alone. It needs to become an organization and have its own patrons until the grants we have applied for (surely!) roll in late next year. If that doesn't happen, I'm going to need to put it to bed and move on.
I'm giving it one last bit of my all and attempting to turn it into a nonprofit dedicated to the open research and development of windowfarms for our homes! The idea is to make it my job to run the org, the site, the R&D process, and training sessions/curricula so other people can take over. I need to bring on someone like Maya Nayak full time to share the workload. We have applied for 501(c)(3) status, have a 3 member Board (including Rebecca Bray as Chairwoman!!), and have given ourselves until Jan 4 at 2 pm to raise $25k in a public support test.
Will you contribute to our public support test via our Kickstarter campaign and also forward this to everyone you know?
Here are some short videos of the project if you'd like a little more background.
The Windowfarms Project operates in what seems a small niche, but I hope it might be what Buckminster Fuller would call a "trim tab," a small part that turns giant ships by being particularly well placed. Growing some of our own food is a simple pleasure that can make a big difference in our relationship with nature. As we choose nutrients to feed plants we hope to eat in turn, we gain experience with a nearly-lost fundamental human art, get a microcosmic view of the food system, develop a stake in the conversation, and come up with new ideas for how to take care of ourselves and our planet in troubled times. Let's make this experience possible for anyone!
Thank you.
PS- Sign up for updates by clicking the orange RSS button under the video on this page.
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Britta Riley
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Created: 29/12/2009 :: Updated: 31/12/2009 ::
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| Growing Hydroponic Cucumbers in a Plastic Trash Container |
Cucumbers can be grown in a large plastic trash container (30–35 gallons) by a simple noncirculating hydroponic method that does not require electricity or a pump. The grower fills the trash can with water, adds the correct amount of fertilizer, places the lid on the container, and seeds or transplants a cucumber plant into a forestry tube inserted into and held by the lid. No additional water or fertilizer are needed. The crop is normally terminated when most of the nutrient solution is consumed.
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| Hydroponics Simplified |
Follow our simplified system, clear instructions and free plans to get started in hydroponic gardening today! clean, healthy, tasty, exciting... the future is now with hydroponics.
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| Do It Yourself Hydroponics |
Bonsai student, friend and firefighter, Matt Kinsey of Montana, has created his own hydroponic growing system from inexpensive readily available materials. ...
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Created: 03/02/2009 :: Updated: 03/02/2009 ::
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| Green Roof Growers: How to Make a Two Bucket Sub-Irrigated Planter ... |
We're growing heirloom vegetables on our respective rooftops in the City of Chicago using homemade *sub-irrigated planters* (SIPs) and commercially ...
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How to Make a Two Bucket Sub-Irrigated Planter (SIP)
This is a simple, easy-to-do project that will let you grow your own food wherever there’s enough sunlight--on your roof, balcony, back steps, driveway, or vacant lot next door. It doesn't take any special skill and the materials are all readily available. |
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Created: 10/01/2009 :: Updated: 03/02/2009 ::
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