A garden in my apartment | Britta Riley
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- www.ted.com Britta Riley wanted to grow her own food (in her tiny apartment). So she and her friends developed a system for growing plants in discarded plastic bottles -- researching, testing and tweaking the system using social media, trying many variations at once and quickly arriving at the optimal system. Call it distributed DIY. And the results? Delicious.
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I actually got a little teary eyed, with feelings of love and hope in my chest watching this. I'm a skateboarder, and for years now we've been building our own parks. Skaters are coming together, putting in their time and money and energy to create their own world. There are hundreds of these projects world-wide, and some are huge. 100's of tons of concrete moved by the hands of people committed to building a better world for themselves and each other. It's a beautiful thing. But I thought it was just us. Now I know it isn't, and I'm so happy to discover this! Britta Riley, you are fantastic! As are all your fellow research and developers. Now I'm going to look into being one of them. THANK YOU!
I thought this was amazingly awesome too, until I looked it up on Google. I saw that they are now patented and selling a very expensive system... Actually, it's only part of the system, you would have to buy five of them or so. It's not recycled, it's not biological, you are not sprouting your seeds. They sell you the plants already sprouted in your system. Someone got greedy and forgot the whole point. I feel bad for all the people who donated. Here's an actual cheap and efficient way to garden in your window... Buy curtain brackets, curtain rods (or any steel rods), shower curtain hangers, and buckets. It looks super cute and modern, without all of this. You can even get all of those things used,without any plastic.
just got the same surprise ! that S.... :S
just realise that their was an other link on their page ! it still open diy !
our.windowfarms.org/
they always do like this:they become greedy and proud of having been the "pionier"...after they have used people(volunteers) time to apply "their" ideea...Now you have to buy it if you want to use it...it is cheaper to come up with your own and try to sell it to them afterwords...
thank you so much sweetheart! I will see what I can do cheap!
Betsy Smith This is why I think that we should learn to plant what you buy. For instance the tomatoes that I growing is from the one I bought took a scoop of seeds and just dropped it dirt and it didn't cost my extras. I use plastic containers. and I use coffee grounds and egg shell and other things that you would use in compost. Cutting cost is important because if the product costs more than in the store, then what was gain?
This is great.I have families in the States that are doing window farm. I do balcony and outside raise bed. Anyone can do it. If I can do it from a wheelchair you can do it too. Happy gardening.
There are a few components to courses in aquaponics . One resource I found which successfully combines these is the Fast track grower (check it out on google) it's the most useful blueprint that I've seen. look at all the super information .
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You can feel the emotions in her voice, the image of these thousends of people across the globe, working together for the benefit of all.
You would have to keep the right Ph. balance in the fluid. This would require daily checks and use of nutients for moving Ph. up or down as needed.
People really need to rely on themselves to produce their food because that's one step closer to freedom.
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Thank you Britta Riley for this wonderful opportunity for us people to do something ourselves. I am currently an exchange student in Japan and the people are amazed like me! When no one does the change for us, we have to be the change in the world! Thank you so much! :)
I also have a limited space and vertical gardening save a lot of space and budget wise all of my vegetables and herbs consumption came to my garden, a lot of savings in my pocket and always eat fresh. I have my compose bin, and saved me a lot, buying garden fertilizer are also expensive, using organic compose yield twice of the harvest. Gardening is so rewarding. Yes, hydroponic is also an options and this is an excellent idea for people with limited space. Post more videos about hydroponic. Thank you in sharing
This is like the industrial revolution: has a momentum all it's own. Only this time, it's the Open Source Revolution (or whatever), building on the work of others, but no one hoarding it to themselves: shifting from competition to cooperation and collaboration. It's so inspiring!
This did start out as a movement but lets face it scams, geed and exploitation has pretty much flooded most diy projects. This is even more so with hydroponics and aquaponics where stores now sell basic $40 dollar builds to people for 90+. The barrel system for $900 etc.Even going to the extent of making sure they do not sell risers or buckets with holes. Then turn around and put a desc in saying this is not homemade its factory made. So its more or less making sure the man does not know how to fish. So they can starve people into paying whatever is decided. The sad part is a lot of these system designs could be used in the third world.
Joe Buzzell Well, yes, that's true enough, and sad, especially about the third world issue. Of course, it's fine for the people who don't really want to "do it yourself." It's good that they can buy the set up, and still grow their own food, have plants in their house, etc. For the rest of us, there's the internet, where one CAN access the info, so there is still an "open source" dynamic going on.
Brandon McGinnity Sure, open source info, like the diagram of how it's set up on their website. All I had to do was download and enlarge it. Now I can build it myself.
I discovered that this video is interesting and an excellent example of exactly what can be achieved with group sourcing and community participation in constructing systems and experiences. I hope to see future videos from your channel.
I think I'll try the window farm hydroponics out .I already use leca
Love the inovation and working together attitude!
I'm trying hydroponic growing this year in my room (I live with my parents and we have a backyard but because of shade from trees and pests, we don't get many things)...
I'm trying out the system with a kratky (pumpless version) and a double cup method (not really a true hydroponics system - considering it uses soils - one plastic cup holds the soils and the plant, the other becomes a reservoir for the nutrient solution - refill daily). I'm just waiting for my seeds to sprout and become big enough to pick up the nutrient solution and then I'm buying some solution/nutrients.
My setup for now is a recycled ice cream container (plastic of course), with a jello/yogurt container with holes cut into it. The medium I chose was coconut fiber (had some extra from raising orchids).
My main light tent (I have some crappy grow lights from raising turtles - they need the vitamin D to absorb calcium) is a recycled cardboard box lined with a mylar camping blanket.
So far it's cost me nothing to set up - had everything I need, but will go to the dollar store and pick up a few things like solo cups and some cheap potting mix. And I have an order on Amazon for $50 worth of hydroponic nutrients - which will feed the plants for a long time....
how did it go? i am late to the party, and lots of things have vanished; the sites no longer link. but i am curious astrangeone do you still have access, or contact? are you still growing food?
jo Cobbett
I'm still growing peppers. The "ghost pepper" and jalapenos are doing fine. I tried to do the lettuces, but they turned bushy and bitter, so I guess they didn't like this setup.
All you need is a tupperware and some things to hang in them. I used plastic cups with holes punched into them, and the nutrients work well
Britta Riley's Kickstarter was a scam. I donated over $100 for a window farm and she hasn't delivered to myself, nor has she delivered to HUNDREDS of international backers.
Shameful
Tony Blake good to see it's being noted. horrible ethics in business will outweigh any attempt to improve food security.
no waaaay. really?
wow.
And in the end, all gathered information in the international forum was taken offline. Really shameful and again a bad example of corporate owned open source. For sure you can use it for free, if you are able to find the plans.
@clearstatic, make your own. I think she meant well; however, she probably was way over her head. You can use plywood, wood slats, and assorted buckets.
Where is she now? You can't find her on the internet at all! No news about what she did with the fund raiser money also.
Her site is gone but so are several related sites. Based on what she said in her speech I have a feeling some corporation patented the process then sued them to death. Only corporations are allowed to make money in our system of government. I've had some direct experience with that very thing. I've tried checking into getting patents just as a defensive move but they are insanely expensive to get, think in the tens of thousands of dollars and potentially much more. Even non profits aren't safe since you are perceived as stealing from a corporation. About all you can do is try to share the information on places like UA-cam and so far they can't stop you from feeding yourself but don't think they haven't tried. There was a bill floated that would outlaw selling seeds that weren't patented or at least certified. The excuse was it was for our own good to make sure the seeds met certain standards but really it was to try to force you to buy your seeds from companies like Monsanto. They've already made it nearly impossible for farmers to save seeds. Seeds need to be "cleaned" as in removing any debris before they can be used. The machines are expensive so farmers were paying some one to clean the seeds for them. Monsanto didn't like farmers saving seeds including ones that weren't Monsanto seed so they started suing the seed cleaners. They couldn't fight the lawsuit so most had to abandon the business so the farmers were left with no way to clean their seeds so they had to abandon seed saving. Corporations are evil by nature.
hadnt heard about seed cleaner suits before.. there are more & more people saing seeds and acting independently.. sad that this seemingly benevolent approach got derailed
now thats how fake news spreads. Its more likely they took the money and ran...
That isn't true- she never actually delivered her products for international orders, and later she hid
+Ted should remove this video of this scamster.
This is a Great idea to Start now!! during this pandemic/soon to be Great Depression. Stay strong NYC!
We plant vegetables in our yard a habit passed down by my grandmother. In our school and house we use empty plastic bottles and cans as pot.
The website is not working, it just shows ads related to similar stuff.
We apply Open Source principals to our food/medicine/eco start-ups, and it's great to see such a good example of crowd sourcing innovation; but what on earth happened to them? I can't find anything on Britta Riley or RNDIY and it seems from the comments she was either a scamster, a sellout or sued by big business? Very strange end to a too-good-to-be-true story. We need real solutions.
This is super exciting not only the money this can make but the family's it can help feed
To see the videos that actually kicked this off Go to the youtube channel Windowfarm or window farmers channel. I just typed her name in search to find a wealth of her video's cuz this one seems more like just a marketing pitch not the DIY it started as.
YW ;)
Thank you for this info
Thank you for this info
It doesn't seem that this project is active anymore. Can anyone confirm? I went to their sites, the only one up is the .org, and although I didn't scour the site its last news-related update was in May 2015.
@Seano71 Isn't the glass allready there? And the Space behind it. The Cups apear to be made out of non recycleb plastic bottles. Only problem i see is the frame and pump. As for the solar panels, their power can still be fed into the local network or battery for later use at night.
I am so going to try making this at home.... I hate living in an apartment where nothing can be grown - I don't even have a windowsill where a plant can stand
This is the NEATNESS thing i have ever heard of so wonderful &enlightening.
Putting plants in your window will reduce the incoming light to your room. Some people will turn on lights to brighten the room up again, but it means we are consuming more electricity -> cutting carbon footprint??? Anyway, it is a good idea. Would love it if the city is more green
i like the idea of window farming but if house and flat builders were pushed to put in bay or bow windows, there would be room for big pots that will yeald more,that can just be watered by hand
i have also seen this type of growing with the clear plastic shoe racks you can hang up that looked less home made, not to knock the bottles
Be the change! I Will consider This once i get my own place great idea!
Jon Tor Strøm
Hill Tung To yy
Was not a surprise when I did go after their web page and discovery it was only a fucking store.
Nothing about DIY or community.
Nice try.
You guys from TED should make it public... to show people that some "looking good" speeches need attention about if they can be trusted.
You most likely only went to the store which is the.com, our.windowfarms.org is the actual community site.
someone took that down.... no way to reach it anymore. sad yes?
It was up not that long ago hmm...
It was a community, it was DIY. No more though: www.windowfarms.nl/nieuws/whatever-happened-to-britta-riley/
@CommentsSurvey Indoor without electricity : solar panels or a simple mechanical system that works with a weight you reset on top each morning/evening...
outdoors : put clay pots on walls, where's the problem? you get nutrient throught rain and the sun...
So where is the R&DIY homepage?
www.windowfarms.com/
+Bob Stak All there is is an expensive version of the original idea. $300 for 8 bottles and $30 for a monthly box of seedlings? Come on! No plans, no sharing of ideas, no community.
+Paul Lamens .org not .com
windowgardeners.org/
Hello everyone don't click on those links they no longer exist and have weird sites now
@backacheache Yes you can. You are not going to touch the barren land, the dirt, sand/soil here, But use water and little of nutrient solution to grow plants.
The website do not work :(
This is beautiful. However, in hydroponic crops, don't we have to buy the nutrients from the same chem industry (Bayer, Monsanto etc) we are trying to avoid?
@chocomalk do you mean gravity fed? Theres a company in UK that makes a system called Auto Pot. You don't need any pumps with that one although a good airstone in the gravity fed nutrient bucket would be a good idea to aerate the feed.
They should seriously stick the website in the description
Building various hydroponic systems - both off and on grid - is very easy, fun and affordable. If any of you out there are on the fence, go for it!
why use electricity to power it? how about just a normal foot-pump into a bladder/baloon once a day/week, and the pressure being released slowly all the time.
Sandra ! That is so right I almost cried watching Plastic Paradise because these huge companies are feeding LIES!!!' They think putting a leaf with recycle sign next to it means enviornmentally friendly when really it's not!!!
@Icix1 The problem is not simply explained by the word "lazy." It's a matter of industry eliminating a need for traditional tasks while raising the average dollar value of a human's time. By your logic, someone is lazy if he doesn't hand craft his children's toys, doesn't get his own cow and milk it for his milk, etc. Specialized industries for these things means we get more for less cost and we can do the things we really want to do.
in my opinion it is another way of "greenhouse" hang on the windows and equipped with pump
exactly what ive been hunting for! i have idea to turn my apartment lounge into a mix of vertical window farming, inc on walls with LED lights, powered by gravity-fed hydro (archimedes screw/waterwheel, which also help transport n keep water flowing around my room, cleaning, oxygenating n filtering naturally for the fish which will fertilise the plants. im thinking to use bamboo 'pipes' as much as possible. 10 years ago, i asked to grow plants in the communal area n got denied (fire hazard -.-) i am concerned about condensation issues, but there's ways to mitigate this apparently (not looked into it as yet, just enough to see info out there)
A lot of people at Occupy Detroit would find this pretty interesting, that is if they don't already know about this or something greater in the works.
There´s one problem with this. When architects design buildings, they make windows big enough to provide inhabitants with sufficient sunlight, because the lack of it has an impact on health. Putting plants in windows blocks the light. What about this?
Never thought Windows would be subject to the open source community! ;)
If you're at all interested in this (as I was) I'll save you some time. "Window Farms" went out of business but the community version can be found here: windowgardeners.org/
See also:
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windowfarm#Controversy_and_complaints
- www.windowfarmsfraud.com/
- www.kickstarter.com/projects/windowfarms/learn-to-grow-and-share-with-new-windowfarms/comments
A simpler, cheaper (and more productive) way to do this that does not need electricity or water pumps. It's called Sub-Irrigated Planters and has a deeply-rooted open-source following throughout the world, just search; wikipedia Sub-irrigated planter
@sssshhhh101 which could easily be automated and handled by a modular plug-in to your system :)
I haven't checked out this project yet, but if they don't have it, they could benefit from a linux-based modular platform control software.
@gaiatechnician I myself cant wait to join this kind of community , for so long I would want to grow my own garden and now I have the best way for me.
Clock the guy at 00:35 when his mates said "remember, it's fancy dress today Jim".
@Rundfunk90 I'm not sure you understand the difference between a copyright and a patent. (FWIW: I'm not very clued up either). You could, for example, copyright (and licence under the GPL) the schematics or blueprint for a particular design, but you have no control over someone who would themselves try to patent something similar.
@frostyuk2007 awesome, especially in winter and especially in areas with scares water. Please, give me a break! It's for enthusiasts and people who want to grow twice more than traditionally you grow using a simple soil and natural humus on windowsill. I am from a cold and unfriendly Ukraine:) I pay a dollar for a good 5kilo soil, a dollar for the same amount of humus that I disperse on 25 kilos of soil. I can't grow the weed, but I grow spinach, cress-salad and basil in winter just fine.
The next TED video should be called :
How much TED should be 720p...
Very, very cool! Starting my own window farm soon.
I appreciate your idea
Thanks for the details its new for me to know about window gardening I normally use bottels for new seeds and pot them in big pots when they grow after few days i like your idea very much I am from India and I like to know more about the designes and the plants & vegitable we can grow kindly if possible pleaseemail me the related details its very exiting.
@reinoks
Its definitively not about Cannabis, but you can use the designs to grow weed.
@CommentsSurvey There are several ideas for no electricity windowfarms on the community site "ourwindowfarms". Some have been put into practice, some not. Check them out and test one.
Awesome. How do I join this community?
Is it just me or does the website not work?
+Educating Savvas You may have better success with:
our-dot-windowfarms-dot-org/
Had to remove the actual "dots" to keep the address from appearing as spam on UA-cam.
+William Ellerbe
This worked for me, thanks!
Just take out the - dot - and put an actual . in it's place and you're good to go!!
Jennifer Grove Happy to find out that the URL worked for you. It's amazing to see the difference that a window farm can bring.
Doesn't still work.
you are right; getting that spooky feeling that someone is trying to take the diy part out of all this..
@DarkAsSilver She gave you the website, if you watched her presentation through into completion.
hydroponics is actually really cool
what happens whit the heater down the window, what about your home insurance as well?
So did this project come to a halt? Haven't heard, or website has not been updated.
I think they want it replaced with soil because 'dirt' refers to something dirty or something you get on yourself (like that awful light brown dirt) and something you don't want things as opposed to soil which brings with it the image of gardens and flourishing plants, richness, value. That's just my guess. (ps.I am US American.)
tl dr: dirt is unwanted and soil is wanted in is connotation.
This is awesome ideas... another new things to do
Energy intensive, where are the materials for maintaining this come from? Where is the energy to maintain this come from? Need natural processes that in itself can regulate and maintain itself.
@SANJAYKAPADI this is not britta riley's youtube account, i suggest you to go on to her website rndiy.org
I am going to do this on a small scale.thank you for this :-)
The idea is nice of course but in my opinion, we should try to avoid using plastic first. It is a useful but dangerous material. Have you watched the documentary 'Plastic Planet'?
It looks like we are reusing plastic that was already manufactured and used. This is so much better than making your own anything for your own purpose. If we can reduce plastic consumption to the point that there is not enough to reuse for this purpose that would be great, but every plastic bottle used for this purpose is one more plastic bottle that doesn't get thrown away or recycled.
@Slashtap3
Also, when you're young you think these horrible industries exist to prey on you. But when you grow up you realize that people actually demand this stuff. Specialized industries only exist because people demand it.
@YUZO2kxx I think you make a good point, but it's a bit more complicated than the concept of mass production -> cheaper -> most environmentally friendly.
Cheapness and environmentally friendly does not relate 1 to 1 with each other. This notion is correct when talking about resources and mining them, but not correct when it comes to using more expensive materials because they can be broken down in nature.
And: maybe producing it yourself is cheaper than mass due to lower shipping costs?
So what do i do get when i get fines from my HOA and city for growing plants in my house?
+Christopher Banacka File a suit against NASA for growing their plants indoors and using your money to do it
What happened to rndiy.org ? it is not working anymore?
Great talk! Thank you
What studies I will have to do for learning this???
@frungahr don't they plant n the basement or smtg? r u sure they've been planting them on the window?
totally cool talk.
why can't you just use a simple soil and grow normal things like cress-salad, spinach, basil. I am doing it in winter and it didn't took me much to figure it out. But I don't have those tall windows, my windowsills are kinda of full already. And where the hell would I put the hydroponics. Pretty useless, but I liked the idea of low light conditions, you could install in the area of indirect light (I can move my orchid) or simply add LED lamp, so you are apartment may burn while you are out lol
Fantastic project!
@Dewkeeper I highly doubt that it's used much in my country, i'm guessing imported stuff.
url does not work. Domain is for sale....
Proud to be Finnish :P
Ted please reference these videos, I'd rather not go through Google to try and find this website.
The rndiy.org website is gone.
nice idea but this would never work in my place . my windows barly get 2 hours of sun a day in the longest days in summer so i need a grow light . this thing wont last a week in my place
Great work i want to do this in my room
It feels awkward to see the names of Bill Gates and Al Gore in the description of videos like these.
Yay! Awesome!!! Loved spying Jackson in this vid! ~Heather @aftertheharvest @superforest SuperForest loves Windowfarms!
Why even bother using pumps at all? By holding the bottom of a pipe beneath the level of the fluid container it's attached to, gravity will act as a natural pump and will draw the water up automatically.
It wouldn't be too hard to exploit this effect to create a system that releases nutrients periodically. At the very most you could use an electric nozzle that periodically opens, even this would save you a ton of electricity.
Creative use of mirrors can help maximize sunlight exposure too.
LOVE.
Agree!!
lolz awesome i do believe i will go to their website to see what materials i need for my grow system XD
Where can we find the water pump? Or how can we make a water pump and how to use it?
Buy a pump for a fish tank.
amazon or ebay... "Horticulture pump" will get you a good water pump, to push water upwards
im so interested
So amazing!
The site is dead. Please anyone got new links ?
Why would you need her products when there are millions of people building their own systems at home with minimal amounts of cash. She basically stole the ideas of other people for profit. It's not her idea at all. Anyone can figure out how to do this at home. There's so much information available on how to do this yourself. This woman is just a business woman looking to cash in on other people's ideas, and nothing more.
Lila Lundquist well said
Fantastic idea...... thank you for you video :)
Superb!! Superb!! Superb!! Thanks!!