January 2018 - Plantimate

January 22, 2018

Planting Trees With Drones

Embracing new technologies to rapidly plant trees in hard to reach locations whilst driving down labor costs this project offers a solution. Check out this exciting proposal making use of 3D scanning of terrain, algorithms and the firing of seed pods into the ground from drones.

‘The system’s engineers estimate that their method is about 10 times faster and only 20% of the cost of hand planting. And because there is no heavy machinery involved, it’s possible to plant in hard-to-reach areas that have no roads or steep, inaccessible terrain.The BioCarbon team has tested its technology in various locations and recently trialed reseeding historic mining sites in Dungog, Australia.’

January 17, 2018January 17, 2018

Future Trends in Organic and Plant Based Milk

Plant based milk is a good way to see how plants can be utilised in other food markets, in particularly the dairy market. Plants can play a positive role in helping to minimise some of the more negative aspects of dairy production. With changing consumer trends how can organic dairy milk be used in different ways? Read this article for a short and interesting insight.

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January 11, 2018

Inspiring Temporary Shelters

With the recent disaster relief efforts in the Philippines after Typhoon Tembin in December it is worth highlighting some of the great work being done in disaster relief shelter design. Check out these eight examples ranging from the hi-tech to simple and effective to conceptual. At Plantimate we believe such shelters to help people recover from traumatised events can be supplemented with food growing to nurture the recovering bodies as well as the mind.