Berlin Farm Lab

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Man Gets Prison Sentence For Collecting Rainwater On His Own Property

Collecting rainwater on your own property can now lead to jail time, as proven by a man from Oregon who was just sentenced to prison for doing just that. Who owns the rain?

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I just baked my first sourdough rye bread! It took a while, but I think it is one of the best breads I have tasted! Thank you Mascha! Recipe here. 

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MIT: For Clean Drinking Water, All You Need is a Stick

A team of researchers from MIT have said that if you run out of drinking water, all you need to do is to break off a branch from the nearest pine tree.

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A Zero-waste supermarket has always been my dream. I had designed once one, together with my friend Myrto Birliraki, in a architectural workshop. Today it exists and its in Berlin. It is called: Original Unverpackt. You can find everything in bulk, even toothpaste pills and bring your own containers to fill them in. How cool! 

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Greece’s solidarity movement: ‘it’s a whole new model – and it’s working’

Citizen-run health clinics, food centres, kitchens and legal aid hubs have sprung up to fill the gaps left by austerity – and now look set to play a bigger role under a Syriza government

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The Techies Who Are Hacking Education by Homeschooling Their Kids | WIRED

The Cook family are not just homeschoolers but unschoolers. They don’t prefer homeschooling simply because they find most schools too test-obsessed or underfunded or otherwise ineffective. They believe that the very philosophical underpinnings of modern education are flawed.

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“… Jellyfish Barge is a floating agricultural greenhouse, able to purify salt, brackish or polluted water using solar energy. Jellyfish Barge is built with low-cost technologies and simple materials, also appropriate to the self-construction paradigm. It consists of a wooden base of about 70 square meters that floats on recycled plastic drums and supports a glass greenhouse for crop cultivation….” Pnat.net – Jellyfish Barge Greenhouse

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burning the garden beds :( 

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The very last goodbye

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9sbxXRoVpw&feature=youtu.be

For cleaning up and moving ideenfarm we had to burn all the leftover wood..

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BERLIN: Finding Takers for Lonely Leftovers in a Culinary Nook of the Sharing Economy

A New York Times article about food savers in Berlin! What a great city we live in.

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You wouldn’t think that human poop has many uses, but it turns out that the UK is using brown to go green. As of today, Britain’s first “poo bus” will be shuttling passengers between the city of Bath and Bristol Airport. And yes, you guessed it: it’s powered by human waste, alongside food waste.

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Really nice rocket-stove design for Guatemala, where 3000 people die each year as a result of indoor air pollution with women and children most at risk. Learn more and support their crowd funding campaign here. 

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The Culticycle is a pedal powered tractor that can cultivate, seed, spray, or pull gear for most low horsepower tasks. We talked about the first prototype almost two years ago. A new version has now been released, built around a modular tractor frame. more info here.

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Since we lost our place in Marzahn, we have to give away our materials.. The pergola structure, the one that Mascha and Lili with so much effort reconstructed this year, went to a farmers family to create a roof for the animals and one of the bathtubs will satisfy the thirst of some horses!

photos by Gosza Zmyslowska 

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Our A-frame Cabin to sell

Berlin Farm Lab - Ideenfarm is moving out of its current location and selling some of its big installations:( Sad, but our contract did not got renewed. We are now homeless until we find a new place for gatherings and gardening. Would anyone be interested in a A-frame cabin? 

message me: [email protected]

http://kleinanzeigen.ebay.de/anzeigen/s-anzeige/gartenhuette/256600041-89-3380

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This Canadian Artist Halted Pipeline Development by Copyrighting His Land as a Work of Art | VICE | Canada

We talked to the guy who took on Canadian pipelining industry by copyrighting his land—including a white-picket fence—as art.