growBots

A notes, links, blurbs & quotes blog for the research team behind growbotgarden.com, part of the Public Design Workshop at Georgia Tech.

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Super cool graphic!

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London’s Urban Farming Hub Reaches New Heights

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atelier gras: eethuis

Atelier gras has designed ‘eethuis’, an edible green house in Appeltern, the netherlands. Charmingly translated to literally mean, ‘eat house’, the project consists of plastic produce crates,mesh and packed soil to grow vegetables along its structure.

http://www.ateliergras.nl/contact.asp

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Serial tech entrepreneur and PodPonics creator Matt Liotta’s urban “farm” is in fact the razed site of former rough-trade Ponce de Leon gay bar, the Phoenix, hunkering between the gritty Ponce Hotel and a car wash in the Old Fourth Ward. There, Liotta, age 32, has parked four metal shipping containers (which he plans to soon blow up to 25) more typically seen on the back of freight trains. These postindustrial mother ships nurture PodPonics’ crop of spinach, arugula, romaine, Bibb and buttercrunch lettuces.

Green Biz: Urban "Farmer" Matt Liotta - Modern Luxury Atlanta - Style

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Mushroom log close-up

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Duane showing us his logs used to grow mushrooms

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fencing and other things outside of the barn

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sprout making its way through a crack in an overturned wheelbarrow

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area behind barn + fries

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canoe + fries

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canoe!

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the Funny Farm pond. Ducks may be coming soon; depends on if the water level rises

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lilypads or some other aquatic plant on the pond

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overgrown walkway leading from pond area to the main yard

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Duane discussing asparagus

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asparagus!

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growBot lab team walking into the house