Flat Packed, Vertical Farming Urban Agriculture
Check out Dezeen’s article highlighting how building with cork has been used in a variety of applications within design and construction. At Plantimate we believe in the holistic benefits this product can bring to projects given its light weight, resistance to rot, good thermal quality and waste saving measure from the industrial process!
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.’
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.
Check out this great project: Polar Permaculture is bringing fresh food and permaculture to the harsh climate of Svalbard in the Arctic Circle. At Plantimate we believe that improving the ability to grow food in some of the world’s harshest environments is essential if access to healthy food for as many people as possible is to be realised. This project is a great example of such an effort:
“On Svalbard, the soil is extremely poor and unsuited for growing food, so if it were not for the worms and compost, soil would literally have to be shipped in.”
Check out this inspiring story of a 13 year old building his own house with a mixture of determination and innovation. Very cool. Very inspiring!
At Plantimate we want to promote sustainable vertical plant growth to as many people as possible. Check out this great way to introduce vertical garden plant life into your life. It can be scaled to cover small or large wall areas. Plant types can be selected for a variety of climates and included is a helpful list of plant types categorized in relation to their tolerance to shade!
Plantimate aims to eliminate the need for pesticides. However on the larger scale pesticides can still be necessary evil so check out some inspirational work being done by Agrospheres in reducing the impact of these pesticides in the growing process!
AgroSpheres aims to solve these problems. Developed by University of Virginia students Zach Davis, Joseph Frank, Payam Pourtaheri, Ameer Shakeel and Sepher Zomorodi, AgroSpheres is an enzyme delivery system that allows farmers to degrade pesticides on their crops in a matter of hours instead of days. Soon the startup will also be able to protect crops from frost damage.
