I'm starting my singe-column test build today. I have been interested in hydroponics intellectually for a while now, but wanted to find a small project to try it out with. Window Farms are perfect for this because they are cheap and easy to DIY. In case anyone was wondering, the most expensive things you will buy will be the pump (around $20) and the liquid fertilizer ($20-30 bucks for organic stuff). The growstones/clay balls are super cheap, as are the netpots the stones and plants sit in.
@EmailgroupieESLEducation
11 жыл бұрын
OH MY GOLLY. I love you for bringing this to light. I have so wanted a indoor planting system so badly. Gracias chica!!!
@ZeroPointGlobal
14 жыл бұрын
Bravo! My pleasure to pass this along to everyone I know. Congratulations on a fabulous idea. Keep them coming!
@TheSunshinesheri
12 жыл бұрын
I have started in bottles but I will sure put this into play, I love these Ideas, I managed to grow orange seedlings and are just beautiful but for how long its just a test and I live in Canada...but bravo. truly a great method.
@donowhit
14 жыл бұрын
So so cool! I can see so many applications for this--including me. While I live on an acre of land, it is in the desert...so traditional summertime crops struggle here...
@lillithdv8
14 жыл бұрын
OMG I found my summer project! I'm a total clutz when it comes to handy work but I'm determined to do it. I've enrolled my dad & if it works he'll put one in his house. Wish me luck!
@carmelonazario8205
11 жыл бұрын
Love the page. Been doing this for years. I am so happy that there are so many more people doing this. Keep up the great work everybody. We need more vegetation in ny. hopefully everyone that views this video will at least try planting a window garden. P.S. its fun.
@1Rockbilly
12 жыл бұрын
Tilapia! I live in Idaho and we are working on apt sized aquaponics systems, Led Prince on FB is developing solar powered grow lights. Vermiculture would also help with you nutrient needs by providing you with worm castings for compost tea, lose the bottled nutrients! Between the fish and the worms and some other cool little tricks you could 100% organic and independent... Thanks for sharing and working to be free!
@Sharlea2
8 жыл бұрын
I got here while looking for vines that will grow indoors,which led to your TED talk. I'm really glad to see people doing what I've been wondering how to do myself! You've motivated me! Got two great big windows on the south side of my house I can use, but it looks like I'll have to figure it out myself cause like a lot of others, I can't access your site.
@shashankgogoi
12 жыл бұрын
This is great work and I am kind of in love with this whole concept. Thanks for the upload.
@gigablowproperties
12 жыл бұрын
a very very good inspirational idea WOW keep it up.. good work
@questionmarke
14 жыл бұрын
I effing LOVE this video, this concept, this effort! THANK YOU!!
@Pavlovafowl
11 жыл бұрын
Brilliant - am going to post this to my cousin. who lives in Manhattan - hope he will join you! All the Best from France.
@GoingOrganic1
13 жыл бұрын
Great video. You are accomplishing great things!
@PaulPistore
14 жыл бұрын
This literally thrilled me! What an amazing and amazingly simple idea. Well done!
@oscuragotham
13 жыл бұрын
Wonderful project, keep up the good work!!
@TheVintageZone
14 жыл бұрын
*EXCELLENT*....it looks like I have a new hobby! I can't wait to checkout your website : )
@simonegervais6576
12 жыл бұрын
wow awsome I have been looking for ways to have healthier food for my childern and I thank you
@al2cl3
14 жыл бұрын
That's an amazing idea and project!! I will join it! Thanks for this video! Baby plants here I am!
@barbll000
7 жыл бұрын
LOVE it. And the global collaboration is awesome
@neotint
14 жыл бұрын
A growing number of Open Design and Open Innovation projects are gong on, and Windowfarms is one of them. It seems so small, but the iterative nature & open participation makes me think how will this evolve in 1,2,5... years? What new ideas will come out of this? That's what's cool about it to me. For comparable projects & platforms more in the digital realm search for "openinnovators", what's unique about WF is that it's about hardware, the next frontier in Open Design.
@thebigwedding
7 жыл бұрын
The windowfarms.org domain has expired, but you can access the pdf file discussing creating your own window farm @ library.uniteddiversity.coop/Food/How_To-Reservoir_System_Window_Farm.pdf
@corneliuscorcoran9900
2 жыл бұрын
I'm sad to hear that; the video was so full of hope. Still, "well done and thank you."
@MikeBaas
14 жыл бұрын
SO GREAT! SO SUPREMELY GREAT!
@TheCosmicEntity
14 жыл бұрын
This is a great idea! Keep going! First video i actually cared enough to post on
@Tanavids
14 жыл бұрын
This is awesome! I heard about it on NPR - I'm going to build one when I move! :D
@marinekumrad
11 жыл бұрын
congrats for this project it's awesome keep it up
@240SSONLY
14 жыл бұрын
youtube needs more vids like this... 10 stars...
@callisto9
14 жыл бұрын
That is awesome! Thanks for sharing! Very cool. :)
@MrGreenbudha
14 жыл бұрын
wow what you are doing is so awesome !! i am so doing that !! you are a genius!
@jbarksdale5845
7 жыл бұрын
Thats a great gift of design and idea you gave away, admirable. You should have patented that, you could have been a millionaire.
@Yeshua144
14 жыл бұрын
wow that is so cool, amazing idea, thanks 4 sharing!
@TheTatmandu
8 жыл бұрын
I'm going to do this for herbs that would otherwise cost and arm and an leg in Singapore. That division of labor argument is cr&P because this is hardly even a part time job. But collectively this would have an impact on the supply chain problems. Great stuff and excellent use of solar and local resources. Singapore already has vertical farms so a do it at home project makes great sense.
@painchaud2000
14 жыл бұрын
Wow this is awsome!!!!! I suppose someone could do the same thing with compost and by waterig it! What a great idea!!!!
@VLicious8704
14 жыл бұрын
That's pretty amazing, I'm sharing this with everyone I know. :)
@ukessko
12 жыл бұрын
this is amazing.. truly inspirational
@AprilRain74
12 жыл бұрын
This is so awesome!! I have been wondering how to do this!!!! (grow my own food with no space). I can't wait to start!!
@angelboi88
14 жыл бұрын
That's a very good idea really!!! Smart!
@tcgmagenta
14 жыл бұрын
Totally awesome!!
@designat69
13 жыл бұрын
Awesome idea!!!! thanks
@tgkero250
14 жыл бұрын
This is great! I live on a remote island off the Canadian Central coast. It's really hard to get good fresh veg here.
@Yanglike
12 жыл бұрын
I love this !
@attaragal1
14 жыл бұрын
מגניב אוכל אורגני איזה יופי בלי ריסוס בלי דשן כימי פחות רעלים במזון ו האוכל תמיד זמין וטרי אהבתי מאוד ג.עטרה מכל הלב
@DesireeTV
14 жыл бұрын
This is awesome!!! I want to make my own!!
@semptress
14 жыл бұрын
This is so cool! When I lived in NYC I tried to do it on the fire escape, but the fire department made me take them down....
@FMLawinee
12 жыл бұрын
Nice love it good job
@matthewcain2880
4 жыл бұрын
Great video❤️❤️❤️
@schizzapuff3
14 жыл бұрын
This is awesome.
@jerryphoto
14 жыл бұрын
This is beautiful....
@BeingGraceDivine
14 жыл бұрын
awesome britta. i live in manhattan. you rock.
@JohanSandstromWhiteRock
12 жыл бұрын
A marvelous idea and innovative power from individuals will save our beacon.But you have to be a vegetarian...eating veggies. I love the manner and format the video is made..great editing and clear voice ..calm and easy to understand. Thanks/[On KZitem] 'WhiteRockReporter'
@guise314
14 жыл бұрын
Awesome!!!
@speedy_blondy
14 жыл бұрын
Go0d Job !!!!! don"r give UP !!
@Rotorzilla
12 жыл бұрын
I am interested to start this. I was thinking along the same line with plastic bottles but, I am unsure about the amount of BPA that would be transmitted to the food. I live in Okinawa where black mold is very common problem. Is there some way to keep my apt from turning into a mold fest?
@dodoshlodo
14 жыл бұрын
wow impressive, i want a window farm!
@anneberruyermills5939
11 жыл бұрын
is there a way to make something like this but manually water it?
@oaney
13 жыл бұрын
YOU GO GIRL!
@BHN444
14 жыл бұрын
amazing. amazing. amazing.
@krisinge
8 жыл бұрын
Where is the website????? It is gone. I have gathered all materials but now don;t have the instructions to build it!!!! Arg!
@SilvanLaube
6 жыл бұрын
yeah they kind of have no link to the community website in their blog. It's windowgardeners.org
@camez2345
5 жыл бұрын
*They also have updates about the American site and an open letter to the founder (the woman in this video), because she seems to have semi-disappeared, although she had been tweeting up until about a year ago. It's all kind of odd and mysterious. There were claims that she didn't ship some purchased systems/shipped them like two years later... No one really knows what's going on. The Dutch chapter has a FB page, too, which they update regularly. It's in Dutch, but the auto translations are not horrible.
@carlosorozco68
11 жыл бұрын
Congratulations for this initative, I'm from Colombia and I'm teaching urban agriculture in this moment in a technician course, so I consider this a great example to show my ss in order they get to know that is possible to make our cities sustainable places. Congrats again, and how can I join the movement.
@ConnorShawMusic
14 жыл бұрын
awesome!!
@brvandal
14 жыл бұрын
this is freakin awesome
@nameofthepen
14 жыл бұрын
Amazing what good people can do. :-)
@frediab
12 жыл бұрын
Super cool :)
@DeistReality
10 жыл бұрын
Good stuff..Zeitgeist,RBE at its best!!
@bolehland123
11 жыл бұрын
beautiful :)
@OscarFinn
14 жыл бұрын
That's really cool
@onepoint22
14 жыл бұрын
wonderful! ~ i have two concerns and wonder if they've been addressed: 1) have you had the veggies tested for plastic byproduct residues such as BPA, PVC, etc.? 2) moisture and windows, especially in cold environments, usually leads to black mold problems. How is this mitigated? ozonated water would do the trick, however the levels would have to be carefully modulated, and also most plastics degrade with ozone so they'd have to be upgraded.... thanks for launching this cool project! kurt
@LosAngelesVideoBlog
14 жыл бұрын
WOW very impressive
@t4paN
12 жыл бұрын
Is it possible to use window farming for chilli peppers? I have a few different "species" of chillies in different small pots and I was wondering if I can transfer them to a windowfarm since the weather is now officially too cold to keep having them in my balcony outside.
@michaelmax1973
14 жыл бұрын
Very nice project. But just one question. How much energy does the airpump use? MIchael
@iamafractal
14 жыл бұрын
ok but how many watts is that air pump constantly using? can't you do that without all that electricity?
@jenni4ash
14 жыл бұрын
PROPS!! This is genius!
@javgirl
14 жыл бұрын
love love love
@rcflex
14 жыл бұрын
pretty cool, stay green....
@occamsrazor1285
14 жыл бұрын
Ingeniously engineered solution
@piplupisking
12 жыл бұрын
I had the 1000th like :) Awww yeah!
@SixPackProgram
14 жыл бұрын
Cool idea
@CognosSquare
14 жыл бұрын
Newb here. Is the point of the hydroponic system that the plant grows faster compared to a potted plant? If so how much?
@jkarllip
11 жыл бұрын
In what country do you live? There are a whole lot of Hydroponic supply companies on=line here in the states. Also you may want to look into your local Pet Shop or Fish/aquarium shop for some stuff that might work. There are clay filter beads that might work as growing medium.
@CrusoethePainter
14 жыл бұрын
@onepoint22 Well, PET bottles and PolyEthylene/Polypropylene bottles are probably the 'safest'. PP and PE bottles don't use BPA or such plasticizers, since they extrude just fine when being molded.. PET bottles don't use BPA as plasticizer. PP Bottles will photodegrade though, producing plastic pieces, but these can't be absorbed by the plant. Also, the breakdown product itself is chemically similair to inert wax.
@FormerlyDavid
14 жыл бұрын
How do you ensure the nutrients are distributed evenly? Seems to me you'd either starve the bottom or oversaturate the top.
@dannyhughes4889
3 жыл бұрын
Nice !!!!
@tenettttt
14 жыл бұрын
im so gonna do something like this when i get my apartment. even though there is a market pretty close.
@0dav0
11 жыл бұрын
thanks! ill try!
@maisteri
14 жыл бұрын
If you are afraid some corporation will patent the idea, fear not. No patent can stop people from building things on their own for their own non-commercial use. That's what this whole project is about. It's "open source". If some company wants to start selling those contraptions pre-built, I say go for it. I just might buy one to save me from the effort of building it (though building it myself would be fun).
@eatmealiveplease
14 жыл бұрын
im wondering if there is a practical purpose to painting the plastic bottles white.
@0dav0
11 жыл бұрын
I live in Ecuador... there no much hydroponic culture around here and import materials doesnt make sense... I will try to use gravel or clay filter instead of the pebbles... do you have any idea about how can I replace hydroponic nutrients?
@0dav0
11 жыл бұрын
no... can you help me please? :(... there is no "hidroponic store" around here. i guess i gotta find a way to replace them but i can even figure out what clay pebbles are... and i cant find anything like hidroponic nutrients either...
@FMLawinee
12 жыл бұрын
Where to start? What kind of vegatables can i do with this system? Tomato's, paprika, union also possible?
@ohplease587
8 жыл бұрын
I applaud these efforts. But other than growing herbs, micro greens, how much produce can a Window Farm create for a single person or a family??? I cannot seem to find any articles regarding this. I would like to see numbers, quantity analysis. With that said, I am not complaining just curious. Please feel free to chime in if you know of such an analysis.
@t4paN
12 жыл бұрын
@t4paN Edit: not "Transfer" them as in take them out and transfer them, more like create new ones based on the same/similar seeds. They don't seem to require too much space anyway.
@Voxnulla
13 жыл бұрын
Do you have a downloadable archive for local storage? This is the type of enabling-technology that would be very helpful in many scenarios where people's supply of food-stuffs and communications would be cut off for longer periods of time. I think this information would come in very handy stored on a USB stick in a survival kit.
@Sonyoooo3
14 жыл бұрын
Clever system this can have a potensial for the next generation instead of showering its bobble instead?
@MN-bf9sl
8 жыл бұрын
Your website is not working. I saw you on PBS Growing a Greener World.
@THEREALCYSER
13 жыл бұрын
I will do something like this!
@Phoray
14 жыл бұрын
although it wouldn't feed a lot of people, it would work great for many uses, such as herbs to add flavor to main food and to clean indoor air pollution and cool down the house
@AndysGeneral
12 жыл бұрын
@deadlyyellowrose Very green when contrasted to all of the inputs of other methods of food production! "Green" is NOT about using nothing, its about being smarter and strategic with what is used
@MrCoolmarketing
8 жыл бұрын
What about concerns over BPA and other chemicals from plastic? Is there a safer container to use that won't leach nasty oil based chemicals into the end produce? I guess this would work with glass bottles with the extra added step of cutting the bottoms off and sanding down the cut edges to make them safe. Where do you get clear glass bottles without expensive wine pre-packaged or perhaps without a bottom?
@SicaGR
8 жыл бұрын
+Bruce Nelkin LMT Not all plastic's have BPA. Some list if their items are BPA Free but best bet is to contact the company.
@MrCoolmarketing
8 жыл бұрын
+SicaGR I rather drink the wine and use glass bottles. Makes the set up more fun over a longer time frame that way ;))
@SicaGR
8 жыл бұрын
Glass is not easy to cut with out the right tools. You can drill & cut but you need a special bit for that.
@MrCoolmarketing
8 жыл бұрын
+SicaGR Easily available at Home Depot or online from Amazon or coming soon- anobrainer.divvee.social
@SicaGR
8 жыл бұрын
I know I have some of those tools and I've broken plenty of bottles and cut myself plenty of times. You can do like the girl in the video did to get the bottles by rummaging through the recycling, or look into home brewing stores for the bottles. I've seen beer bottles so why not wine ones too! By the way you could do can's too but many cans are lined with BPA too. :(
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