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January 3, 2019January 3, 2019

Chernobyl Green Houses for Contaminated Land

Upon a recent visit to the evacuated towns around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster a picture of this abandoned green house used by the former residents of the town struck a chord. At Plantimate we are developing a food growing system independent of the surroundings so as to avoid issues with soil contamination, this example in an area with high levels of radioactive soil is an extreme example but given communities are starting to move back it only inspires us to work harder on Plantimate and make it as accessible to as many people as possible.

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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