What is the first thing you think of when you hear the word airport? Metal detectors, full body x-rays, vacation, and delays are some of the first things that I think of. I probably would have never thought of the words vertical gardening or aeroponics gardening. The Chicago O'Hare airport hired the company Future Growing LLC to create an aeroponic food farm withing the airport. The garden is harvested by restaurants within the airport to use for their meals. Check out some of the pictures below taken from the
futuregrowing.com website. These beautiful displays are inside an airport!
I love the idea of having gardens growing in public areas. Let's use every inch that we can to grow fresh local food. If an airport can do it, then we should be able to find a place or a way to grow food.
On of our reader's Michael A sent me a link about this. Thanks Michael for the idea.
~Michael~
THIS IS AWESOME! LAX needs to do this (ALL major airports need to do this!)
ReplyDeleteThat is definitely pretty darn neat.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if they give lessons on overcoming brown thumbs and fingers...
Nice to see this and such a positive way to use the space.
ReplyDeleteThis is amazing and the fixtures are so beautiful. I would love to find a source for them or create something similar!
ReplyDeletePretty wild!
ReplyDeleteVery cool, we should be doing this in every empty lot and public flower bed in the country!
ReplyDeletePretty freaking amazing...I watched a movie called YERT (Your Environmental Road Trip) and they were showing Chicago and all the green roofs...it was an astounding number!!
ReplyDeleteThis is awesome. Can you make your own salad?
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