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An apartment building with private hydroponic gardens
This new apartment building that's going up in Wuhan, China, has a pretty unique element to it: private hydroponic gardens for every apartment. Yes, every unit in the tower has a 100-square-foot trellised hydroponic garden that's designed to produce fresh vegetables all year round.
In addition to providing a relaxing and great space attached to each apartment, it offers up a renewable food source for a family living there, making it both stylish and functional. It's a wonderful idea, one that would be great to see in the plant-starved cities here in America as well. Who wouldn't want their own hydroponic garden, after all?
Project Page, via Book of Joe
By Nivekian at 9:20 AM ON 03/02/08
It's about time someone did this!
I mean, hydroponics have only been around since 600BC.
http://www.hydroponicsonline.com/lessons/History/lesson2-1history.htm
By beni at 5:05 PM ON 03/02/08
a house fit for amsterdam, I'd say.. assuming that everyone gets to plant whatever they want
By Jen at 7:34 AM ON 03/03/08
Beni, I doubt they would be able to plant just anything :D
This is starting to sound more and more like one my favorite books - John Brunner's 'The Sheep Look Up'. Unfortunately, the hydroponics in there are the result of us royally screwing up the ecosystem, so they end up being the only solution. Not the happiest of books.
By Dave T at 11:25 AM ON 03/04/08
I presume that the entire system shares a common water/nutrient source. What happens when either a psychopath or a pranking teen decides to pour something unsavory into the water supply?
By Jeff at 3:40 AM ON 06/17/08
Well if a kid did that they have to drink the same water so lol im sure it will be behind a locked door and they have homes on the water in the uk but right by land so its sitting on the water its cool seen on the Discovery channel
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