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iHarvest adds a vertical garden to your living space

Paul Ridden April 18, 2019

Imagine being able to harvest fresh veggies precisely when you need them without leaving the house. That's the promise of indoor gardens like the OGarden Smart and the Cell One. Now IGWorks is making a bid for your living space with a vertical hydroponics garden called the iHarvest.

The iHarvest fully automated indoor hydroponics garden is currently raising production funds on Kickstarter

Space

NASA turns to Tupperware to help grow space veggies

David Szondy July 24, 2017

In an effort to make space gardening less time consuming, NASA is teaming up with Tupperware Brands and the technology company Techshot to improve the current experimental hydroponics system used aboard the station.

Tokyo Bekana Chinese cabbage leaves ready to be harvested in the Veggie experiment on the ISS

Good Thinking

Could triple-decker floating farms address future food issues?

John Anderson September 24, 2015

Forward Thinking Architecture's triple-decker Smart Floating Farms would feature 2.2 million square feet (2.04 sq km) of fish farm, hydroponic garden, and rooftop solar panels to power a floating barge, which could be anchored to the beds of oceans, lakes or rivers.

Each Smart Floating Farm would be a triple-decker barge, featuring a fish farm, hydroponic garden and ...

Space

Astronauts chow down on space harvest for the first time

David Szondy August 10, 2015

The International Space Station (ISS) was the scene of an historic lunch this week with the crew members of Expedition 44 dining on the first meal harvested in space. The dish, which consisted of red romaine lettuce, is part of an effort to feed tomorrow's deep-space travelers.

Lettuce grown on the International Space Station being prepared for lunch

Architecture

PodPlants: Modular, plug and play vertical gardens for indoor spaces

Jana Firestone June 23, 2015

Australian innovator Chris Wilkins has developed a new technology to make vertical green walls simple with his plug and play concept. Lightweight, modular and with a cleverly designed aeroponics system, business is booming.

PodPlants are a portable, lightweight, modular vertical garden with a unique design and watering system.

Architecture

Floating off-grid greenhouse can feed two families

Adam Williams November 19, 2014

Italian design office Studiomobile has teamed up with the University of Florence's professor Stefano Mancuso, the director of the International Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology, to produce a prototype floating greenhouse which it hopes could improve food security in areas with a lack of arable land.

The Jellyfish Barge operates off-grid and produces its own water via an onboard system of solar ...

Around The Home

Bitponics connects your urban garden to the cloud

C.C. Weiss July 1, 2013

Bitponics connects urban hydroponic gardens to the cloud for remote monitoring and control.

Bitponics at CE Week 2013 keeps green thumbs connected with their gardens

Architecture

Supermarket with rooftop greenhouse to sell über-local produce

James Holloway April 4, 2013

Whole Foods' next New York outlet looks set to become a supermarket with a difference. The supermarket chain will partner Gotham Greens to open a supermarket with a rooftop greenhouse growing produce to be sold on the premises.

Artist's impression of the begreenhoused Whole Foods supermarket coming to New York (Video grab: Dark Rye)

Science

ECO-Cycle kit grows greens and cleans aquarium water

Ben Coxworth January 26, 2013

The ECO-Cycle Aquaponics Kit combines aquaculture and hydroponics, in a system that lets users grow plants and clean their aquarium's water.

The ECO-Cycle Aquaponics Kit lets users raise plants and filter their aquarium's water at the same ...

Environment

Home Aquaponics Kit: helping kids grow herbs from fish poo

Dave Parrack November 22, 2012

The Home Aquaponics Kit is a self-cleaning fish tank which uses the effluent from the water to feed the herb garden positioned above.

The Home Aquaponics Kit provides the perfect opportunity to educate kids about the process involved in ...