Urban Farming Contest

You don’t need acres of land to farm. In the Urban Farming Contest, share how you grow or cultivate plants or animals with limited space. Whether it takes place in a small backyard, on a fire escape, or in the couple of feet in front of your kitchen window, we can’t wait to see how you farm.

Winners will take home some fantastic prizes from PlantLink, including a soil moisture sensor, speaker, planters, and more.

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Grand Prize

WINNERS

Winners Finalists All Entries

Grand Prize (1)

Urban Farming: Raising Backyard Chickens by TLP Shop Lab

First Prize (3)

Hexagonal Beehive Boxes, Warre Style by cdstudioNH

Grow Bucket - Small & Compact Vegetable Starting Station by Corasaurus Rex

Runner Up (15)

40+ Hacks for YOU (the Urban Gardener) by Meglymoo87

Worm Composting Lodge by Bille Nutmeg

Windowsill Hydroponic Herb Garden by ku5h

Indoor Aquaponic Food Production System by Austin ESS

Coconut Husk Planter for Orchid by IxoraStrawberry

Arduino Automatic Watering System by Ardumotive_com

Salad Table - for the Urban Gardner by Kirklewellen

Vermicomposting the Easy Way for the Urban Farmer by antoniraj

Laundry Tub Lettuce Bed by amtrudell

Vertical Gardening Trellis for Tomatos or Squash by Professor-Mousedude

KOKEDAMA: a Unique Way to Grow a Plant by balsuryana

Hanging Basket Column by mtairymd

Urban Vegetable Garden by FoodForThought

10 $ Portable Arduino Weather Station (AWS) by geekrex

Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening( Stage I) by babybayrs

30 PRIZES

Grand Prize (1)

One Grand Prize winner will receive:

a Plantlink System
an Outdoor Tech Big Turtle Shell Speaker - Black
a Lechuza Trio 30 Cottage Patio Planter with Trellis
an Instructables prize pack including a t-shirt

First Prize (3)

Three First Prize winners will receive:

a Plantlink System
an AeroGarden Harvest Touch with Gourmet Herbs Seed Pod Kit
a copy of The Essential Urban Farmer
a copy of Small-Space Container Gardens
an Instructables prize pack including a t-shirt

Second Prize (11)

Eleven Second Prize winners will receive:

a Plantlink System
a copy of The Essential Urban Farmer
a copy of Small-Space Container Gardens
an Instructables prize pack including a t-shirt

Runner Up (15)

Fifteen Runner Up Prize winners will receive:

a copy of The Essential Urban Farmer
a copy of Small-Space Container Gardens
an Instructables prize pack including a t-shirt

HOW IT WORKS

Write an Instructable

Create a new Instructable that fits the guidelines outlined in the contest description above. To be eligible, Instructables must be published between Mar 21, 2016 and May 2, 2016 (11:59pm PT).

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Enter

Upon publishing your Instructable you'll see checkboxes for open contests. Select Urban Farming Contest. If you have entries currently eligible for entry, it will also show up by clicking "Enter this Contest" on the right side of this page.

Accepting

Entries are accepted by Instructables staff within one business day Monday - Friday. What matters is the submission time, not acceptance time.

Voting

Instructables members can vote for an entry during the contest plus 3 days after the contest closes.

Judging

A panel of judges made up of Instructables staff and respected members of the community rate the finalists. The averages of the ratings determine the winners.

Winners

When the winners are decided they will be announced here on the contest page. All entrants will be notified when this happens.