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How To Build A Self-Sustaining Kitchen Garden Without Any Space Or Effort

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I find it hilarious when I walk into a grocery shop and I see the term ‘fresh’ put before fruits or vegetables. Chances are, this ‘fresh’ produce was harvested a week ago, stored in a warehouse where it was probably artificially ripened with ethylene gas, and then shipped to a grocery shop where the term “organic” or “farm fresh” was slapped onto it. Your fresh food isn’t fresh unless it was plucked off a tree or harvested right in front of you… and owning a farm or going to a farmer’s market every alternate day isn’t particularly feasible, maintaining a self-sustaining kitchen garden is increasingly becoming easier and easier. Meet Nutraponics, a vertical garden that autonomously grows all your food for you, so you always have access to the “freshest” ingredients!

Designer: Tilden Cooper (Assoc. AIA)

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Built around the very idea of letting you grow the freshest produce right in the comfort of your home, Nutraponics is an advanced vertical gardening system that lets you grow as many as 100 fruits, vegetables, and herbs at home. No larger than a mid-size refrigerator, the 3 or 5-tiered tower is an autonomous garden that cultivates seeds into plants with little to no effort. Each tier holds as many as 20 different plants, giving you a miniature farm in the smallest form factor.

The built-in hydroponics system waters and supplies nutrients to each plant, while internal sensors monitor temperature, pH levels, and your plant’s nutrient absorption and requirements. Self-regulating LED lights also mimic the power of the sun, catalyzing the process of photosynthesis so your plants blossom perfectly no matter what their growing conditions are. All you really need to do is place your Nutraponics tower in your kitchen or living room, plug it in, and fill the reservoir with water and nutrients and the self-sustaining vertical garden does the rest.

While the idea of cultivating a kitchen garden isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, Nutraponics makes the endeavor easy by drastically reducing the pain-points involved in the process. The tower stands vertically, occupying a fraction of the space it would otherwise take to grow 100s of plants, but it’s also designed to be self-sustaining, all the way down from watering to even illuminating itself so that your Nutraponics tower doesn’t need access to natural sunlight.

The Nutraponics device operates on the concept of hydroponics or aquaponics, which uses water as a growth medium instead of soil. Nutrient-rich water is periodically sprayed on the plant’s roots through a patent-pending water delivery system, helping it grow fast while reducing chances of bugs and diseases. All you have to do is fill up the Nutraponics’ water reservoir and add the nutrients to it and the tower does the rest. It monitors the water levels, the nutrient pH, and the nutrient mix temperatures, ensuring the perfect growth conditions for each plant. A set of LED ring lights surround the tower, providing full-spectrum light to your plants just like the sun would. Built-in sensors monitor each plant’s needs, automatically activating the water supply or toggling the lights to ensure the plant grows perfectly. All you do is watch and then harvest!

The vertical tower system comes in 3 and 5-tier formats, depending on how many plants you want to cultivate. Although designed for fruits, veggies, and herbs, you can pretty much use Nutraponics to cultivate anything including even flowers, ferns, and other kinds of plants. Just add the seeds to the pod and adjust the settings accordingly based on the plant’s sun and water requirements. A touch-sensitive panel on the Nutraponics lets you toggle its features, but the tower is best controlled using its companion smartphone app, which lets you remotely set parameters and monitor your plant’s progress… and when it’s time to harvest your yield, either trim or pluck parts of the plant off, or remove the pod from its tier and begin cooking with the ‘freshest’ ingredients you can ever get your hands on!

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Automated hydroponic smart planter lets you effortlessly grow up to 21 plants at once!

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With the demeanor and aesthetic of a large-ish instant pot, the LetPot LPH-Max handles a different aspect of your food-prep process – the actual cultivation!

Meet the LetPot LPH-Max, a tabletop planter that makes setting up a kitchen garden a breeze. Designed to make gardening easy for even the most seasoned plant-killers (not everyone has a green thumb, after all), the LetPot LPH-Max takes control of the entire plant’s cultivation cycle, from seed to sprout to harvest… and it does so without any soil!

Designer: LetPot Design

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World’s First 4-in-1 Automated Smart Hydroponic System – Combines auto-filling water, auto-adding nutrients, auto-LED light, and auto-cycling pump in a system.

The LetPot LPH-Max is a smart hydroponic plant cultivator that works entirely autonomously. It provides the plant with the water and nutrition it needs and even comes with an automatic sun-mimicking LED panel that gives the plants the light they need to photosynthesize. This effectively streamlines the entire growth process so there’s no soil or dirt involved, and you don’t even need to keep the plants in a well-lit area. Heck, you don’t even need to worry about tending to your kitchen garden because the LPH-Max does it all for you. All you really need to do is fill up its reservoir tank with water, add the nutrients to its nutrient chamber, plug the LetPot LPH-Max in, and watch your kitchen garden flourish!

Designed to be a 4-in-1 smart planter (handling the water, nutrition, and light requirements on a repetitive cycle basis), the LetPot LPH-Max can handle growing up to 21 plant pods simultaneously across a variety of flower, herb, and leafy green species. The planter comes with a water reservoir that holds up to 7.5 liters of water, with a small chamber for your plant nutrients too, like the detergent chamber on a washing machine. An LED panel with a telescopic handle lets you adjust the height of your lighting system, increasing it as your plants get taller, and a touch-panel on the front lets you configure the LetPot and check your planter’s water and nutrition levels. The LetPot LPH-Max even has the ability to refill its water reservoir when you’re not around. All it needs is to be hooked to an external water tank and the planter automatically siphons off water from there to fill its own reservoir (mixing the nutrients into the water supply too), so you can even go on weeks-long holidays without worrying about your plants dying on you.

Auto-filling Water – Designed up to 3 water pumps and 2 water level sensors, which can automatically replenish water and nutrients when a water shortage is detected.

9-Level Adjustable LED – With a 9-level full-spectrum LED system, which helps to grow plants 40% faster than the traditional ways.

The way you use the LetPot LPH-Max is rather easy. Each planter comes with a choice of ready plant-pods that just need to be plugged into the planter’s tray. Each pod is made from a dense yet porous peat block, which gives the plant its stability while also allowing water to pass through and make its way to the roots as the plant is in its infancy. The LetPot LPH-Max’s digital dashboard lets you choose between multiple modes depending on whether you’re cultivating veggies, fruits, herbs, or flowers, while also allowing you to adjust the planter’s LED brightness up to 9 different levels.

The LEDs are specially calibrated to provide just the right amount and wavelengths of light required for plants to photosynthesize, without really creating any glare or hurting human eyes (the way the sun sometimes does). The panel even keeps you updated on its water and nutrition levels so you know when to fill the tank up. Alternatively, just hook the LetPot LPH-Max to an external water reservoir and it’ll refill the water levels on its own without human intervention at all.

The LetPot LPH-Max even comes with its companion smartphone app that lets you track plant progress and reservoir water levels while on the go while also remotely controlling your hydroponic planter… and if that wasn’t enough, you can even set up the LetPot LPH-Max with your smart home, so Alexa and Google Assistant can help take care of your leafy babies for you! Growing plants literally couldn’t get easier!

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Oasis lets you grow and store vegetables in your home, creating a beautiful indoor garden

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One of the things that helped people cope with the pandemic for the past couple of years is gardening or at the very least, taking care of green things. It has helped people to destress and take care of their mental health. But not all homes are built to have gardens, but that doesn’t mean you can’t run your own mini farm where you are. This concept for a hydroponic smart farm is something that can fit in whatever space you may be staying in.

Designer: Hyeona Cho

The Oasis is a smart farm that’s meant for home, and it can grow your vegetables and store them before you consume them. The design is inspired by both mountains and desert oasis, hence the name. Some of the items that were used to create a concept design for it include blenders, coffee makers, smart speakers, etc. What the designer came up with is something that looks like a mini-greenhouse with a transparent cover. It kind of reminds me of a bread container, except we get plants and vegetables inside.

The main feature of course, is the space where you take care of your plants. It’s hydroponic so there’s no need for a big space to raise whatever vegetable you’d want to raise on your own. But there’s also a part here called Fresh Keeper where you can store the vegetables once you’ve harvested them without needing to move them to the refrigerator. This means your veggies don’t lose nutrients and you can record the storage date and set the right temperature to keep them.

The Oasis has a touch display with icons that can be easily understood, like the on/off button, temperature, light source, etc. And since this is a smart farm, there’s an app that you can use to monitor your plants and your water levels. You get a notification in both the app and the display when there is not enough water in the tank. The app tells you when things are good or need adjustments, as well as the other stats that you need.

For someone that can’t seem to keep plants alive, maybe a hydroponic smart farm like this is the answer. It would be difficult to kill vegetables in something like this, right? Right?

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This smart indoor garden uses hydroponics to cultivate plants in a growth tray that resembles natural outdoor landscapes!

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Vista is a smart gardening system that uses hydroponics to cultivate lush greenery in a growth tray that mimics the natural terrain of a mountainous landscape.

Smart gardens have taken the design world by storm in recent years. With so much of our time now spent indoors, we’re craving the freshness and beauty of nature. Even so, many of the smart gardens currently on the market are too sterile and rigid to actually make us feel close to nature.

Too many of the smart gardens on the market today prioritize function over aesthetics, amounting to cold, vertical farms that would look more at home in a research center’s greenhouse than a living room. That’s why designer Juhyuck Han created Vista, a smart garden appliance that mimics a landscape’s natural terrain and scales it down to fit in our homes.

Designed to either stand alone or be mounted on an interior wall, Vista takes up around the same space as a large fish tank. Featuring a hydroponic gardening system, Vista’s grow tray mimics the terrain of a natural landscape to bring users closer to nature. Through an immersive structure and smart technology, Vista combines functionality with aesthetics to create a gardening experience.

Trading a cold structure for a design that appeals to the senses, Han notes, “It designed a new smart green appliance that allows you to feel nature and experience growing plants in natural scenery, not in such an artificial box. Vista is a smart green appliance that brings natural scenery into the product and provides a new experience that seems to be cultivated directly in nature.”

Measuring the size of a large fish tank, Vista is designed to be the centerpiece of any interior space. The entire hydroponic cultivation system is encased within a transparent, panoramic glass container that comes with its own array of smart features.

Equipped with GPS technology, the glass container reveals various pieces of daily information such as the weather, temperature, date, and time. Defined by a louver window system, Vista’s plants are also kept ventilated with plenty of fresh air.

Designer: Juhyuck Han

 

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This hydroponic planter uses water from dishwasher, washing machine, and toilet to grow plants

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It’s long been established that gray water can be used for irrigating veggies and plants, provided the edible part of the plant remains untouched by it. This is important since water from washing machines, dishwashers, etc can have traces of chlorine, grease, salt et al. – which can be harmful to it. Yet, the use of graywater for irrigation, not only benefits in saving water, but it also ensures less dirty water contaminates the local water bodies. There have been numerous examples of people using used water in gardens, now an avid designer has conceived an idea of a planter that uses water from household facilities for growing plants.

Dubbed “Grow”, this is a hydroponic system for nurturing plants, herbs, and more utilizing water from dishwashers, washing machines, and toilets. The designer’s motive behind such a design is to offer indoor gardeners a more conscious way to water their greens. While using graywater for watering indoor plants sounds like a perfect idea, the initial information about the Grow proves a different scenario.

From how it’s presented; when the water is flushed, fresh water flowing into the tank is first pulled by the planter system for irrigation and then it returns to the flush. This outrightly suggests that the Grow is not basically using graywater, instead, its utilizing fresh water for its needs. This may work beyond the idea of a worthy planter for the environmentally friendly; it for an instance sticks with us for the convenience of watering it offers. How the system checks the situation of overwatering or other tad bits of gardening, is something that still needs to come to light. Nonetheless, Grow does gives the notion of bringing nature into the home a new dimension!

Designer: Gal Kuflik