Lettuce Plant Pods Reduce Hunger @senseicat

in #life7 years ago

Plant pods is an excellent invention to end food instability and hunger at an extremely low cost fueled with essential nutrients. Imagine the amount of produce that can be grown so easily.

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Imagine if you could have a cheap, nutritious food source in your home that required no daily maintenance. While it may sound too good to be true, that is exactly what this company is doing.
As a means of tackling world hunger, innovative agricultural company Aggressively Organic has developed “Plant Pods”: a micro-gardening system that can grow more lettuce in a 10-foot room than on a half-acre of farmland.
The Plant Pods are built with a hydroponics-based system that revolves around soil-less gardening. This means that owners only need to water the pods every few weeks.

Not only is this beneficial for busy people who forget to water their plants, but it is also better for the environment. Planting lettuce in the ground requires roughly 25 gallons of water to grow; the pods, on the other hand, only require about 16 ounces.

While hydroponics equipment can often cost thousands of dollars, the pods have been designed so that they cost “less than the price of a large pizza”.
The company’s website says: “Since our goal is to end food insecurity, we had to make a system that literally anyone can afford and use. There are no pumps, no electricity required, very little plastic, and every aspect of our company is sustainable. This website is even hosted on a server powered by wind.”
The pods are built using cardboard liners, a coconut coir disc in which seeds are planted, reusable netted cups to hold the plant, and a nutrient solution that nourishes the greenery.

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/cheap-plant-pods-that-can-grow-more-lettuce-in-a-room-than-half-acre-plot-may-end-hunger/

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What a way to go organic ! and its affordability with wind powered website looks like they are really in for the good of the people and our environment. I will be checking this out quite interesting stuff.
Thanks for finding this one...

Fantastic article...
Thanks @senseicat... Bless you...!.

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Great post...
Best regard from indonesia.

now I start eating lettuce

that good article friend did not know that he had so many kindnesses

Excellent read. Very informative.

Cheers,
@shenobie

@senseicat intresting blog, we need that in Venezuela mucha hambre, but I woul like to see the pod without plant if it is possible. Thanks

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