Britta Riley: A garden in my apartment

http://www.ted.com Britta Riley wanted to grow her own food (in her tiny apartment). So she and her friends developed a system for growing plants in discarded plastic bottles -- researching, testing and tweaking the system using social media, trying many variations at once and quickly arriving at the optimal system. Call it distributed DIY. And the results? Delicious.

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[MedicalMarijuanaMini]

"Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens."

Thomas Jefferson 

[scarfprickles]

If I could change one thing in this world it would be to replace the american word 'dirt' with soil.

[themadhatter8888]

Sweet! Awesome! Great!

[TheZebra0scarf]

Oh I want to do this so bad!!

[VisionForum1]

Very motivating. I want to grow food inside.

[jogubald]

Looks really motivating! In particular the taking action aspect. Would be good to actually know something about carbon /env impact reductions, e.g. is it really better than "normal" organic agriculture?

Another question: the light the plants need is obviously not available to other inhabitants of the apartment (us). No problem when we are out, but would seem to turn the whole thing into a bit of a cave otherwise? Any experiences /solutions for that?

thanks!

[killer2611]

so only women grow food? that's the message the video has been sending to me

[CJSurabian]

Start growing your own food. Check out SeedsNowdotCom

[Hyther32]

Yay! Awesome!!! Loved spying Jackson in this vid! ~Heather @aftertheharvest @superforest SuperForest loves Windowfarms!

[houtm035]

Wauw!! open source Rulez!! NewsFlash : not only in software :D

[MedicalMarijuanaMini]

@chriswanderer90 nay. THC has been shown to increase apoptosis (programed cancer cell death) and decreases angiogenesis (expansion of tumor blood vessels). in other words it shrinks and kills cancer. webMD has a ton of research articles on it. it's common knowledge now a days. if you're still scared you could just eat it or vaporize it or smoke hash oil that doesn't contain plant matter. everything we consume is harmful. people die every year from drinking water overdoses.