Architect turns busy urbanites into farmers in their spare time

Architect Jennifer Broutin wants to turn busy urbanites into farmers in their spare time. "Imagine if people in your neighbourhood grew food in small quantities," she says. "We could change the way good, fresh food is produced and distributed in cities." So Broutin, a graduate student at MIT's Changing Places lab, built a little patch of synthetic land -- a 30cm squared module that can be installed in even the smallest home.

Each module, called a SeedPod, is made of a reflective plastic fitted with discs of neoprene, a black rubber into which seeds are planted. "You don't need any soil or water, because we provide water and nutrients in the form of a misted spray," says Broutin, 30.

By: Madhumita Venkataramanan, Edited by: David Cornish

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via Wired.co.uk



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