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Do you have your own personal garden? I'm excited about it because its a combination of many things I truly enjoy doing and get a lot of pleasure from - harves
by aa-jv 2y ago
Do you have your own personal garden?
I'm excited about it because its a combination of many things I truly enjoy doing and get a lot of pleasure from - harvesting energy, growing food, seeing life in equilibrium.
The integrated growth-stands with full-spectrum solar -> plant -> fish -> soil process is really, really appealing. Healthier food, energy harvested in neat ways. If I can get carrots and radishes and salads from the same device that charges my cell phone in the next year or so, I'll be a happier human for sure.
- grumpy-de-sre 2y ago> Do you have your own personal garden? Yes, every season I grow ~20kg of vegetables on a 15m^2 balcony (tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, celery, various herbs). They are grown vertically on a trellis system, using 11 liter hydroponic "bato" buckets and recycled/reused perlite (sterilized). Nothing fancy. The main energy input is the chemical fertilizer. Electricity to run pumps/valves etc is very minimal and probably amounts to 5-6 KWh over the season. I use synthetic fertilizers but avoid insecticides/fungicides, instead opting to use biocontrols (shout out to Koppert! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFPkAQUfYvo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFPkAQUfYvo). The future of agriculture (excluding cereal crops, which I dream might be replaced by synthetic starches one day) probably looks something similar to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_pR_HihCVo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_pR_HihCVo
- barrenko 2y agoNow this is solarpunk.