What it is Home Farming explores growing at least part of your daily calorific requirement inside your house. This biosphere home farm has been designed to occupy a minimum of floor space and instead to stack the various mini-ecosystems on top of each other. It contains fish, crustaceans, algae and edible plants, all interdependent and in balance with each other. Water filtration, recycling of nutrients and optimum use of sunlight are all central to its appeal. It takes all your kitchen-trash as fodder for the farm and manages to generate food, water and cooking gas for the family.
Unlike conventional hydroponic nurseries this system incorporates a methane digester than produces heat and gas to power lights, similarly algae produces hydrogen and the root plants produces oxygen, which is fed back to fish. CO2 is pumped into the plants. It is a closed loop interdependent system. The system uses waste water and non-consumable household matter and delivers food in return.
Why it's cool
The concept supplements a families nutritional needs by generating several hundred calories a day.
Everything you need in your new sustainable household will be in this structure.
It's cool because it creates a vicious circle and it's still all natural.
Family's with kids often use and waste a lot of electricity, water and food.
But this concept is the perfect solution for a eco-friendly household. It will all be used or will provide you with energy. I definitely hope this will be the future so we'll get more aware of natural habitats and we will spend more time being self-suffient.
Unlike conventional hydroponic nurseries this system incorporates a methane digester than produces heat and gas to power lights, similarly algae produces hydrogen and the root plants produces oxygen, which is fed back to fish. CO2 is pumped into the plants. It is a closed loop interdependent system. The system uses waste water and non-consumable household matter and delivers food in return.
Why it's cool
The concept supplements a families nutritional needs by generating several hundred calories a day.
Everything you need in your new sustainable household will be in this structure.
It's cool because it creates a vicious circle and it's still all natural.
Family's with kids often use and waste a lot of electricity, water and food.
But this concept is the perfect solution for a eco-friendly household. It will all be used or will provide you with energy. I definitely hope this will be the future so we'll get more aware of natural habitats and we will spend more time being self-suffient.
This video shows you how it works, at 7:54. The first 8 minutes is about food printing which is also very interesting.
source: http://www.design.philips.com/probes/projects/food/index.page
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