Janu| ProgressTH | Using MIT's App Inventor? It is approximately 20mm thick, using art board with packing tape over it to make the forms, with wire mesh picked up from the local hardware store serving as the "ferro" component. The advantage of using ferrocement is that you can make wire meshes into almost any shape, then apply the cement mixture (2:1 sand/cement) to it, giving you a high level of customization. For the indoor system, the forms will be much, much smaller. Projects get heavy very quickly, so you have to really gain some experience in building in sections and thinking ahead in case you ever need to move something after it is assembled. We have some experience (see our old project here) with ferrocement. They will be modular so you can pick them up and reconfigure them to make small square beds, or larger rectangular beds. In this picture you can see the first of 4 panels planned for rooftop raised beds. This could be applied to the indoor or rooftop systems. We're also working on ferrocement raised beds, and possibly some aquaponic systems as well. We still have the indoor system, but we're also working on a rooftop garden that will use exactly the same monitoring and automation systems the indoor system will use. Ma| ProgressTH This garden project is quickly expanding. We want to focus on creating a sustainable, basic organic garden first, then add layers of technology on top of that to give us better insight into the problems gardeners face and how best to solve them. We have 1 square meter bed already in place and will be making the ferrocement boards for at least another 1x2 meter bed.Īutomation and sensors will come shortly after. The worms come out the lower end of the spinning drum and end up in a container for aspiring worm ranchers to start their own operation. The machine below (Phetchaburi, Thailand 2016) is used to sift the earthworms out of the compost. The vermiculture stock also makes great feedstock if we decide to go into crayfish aquaponics. We picked up some earthworms from a vermiculture operation who helped us learn how to keep them healthy and producing onsite organic fertilizer. Ma| ProgressTH It looks like our deadline of completing the first phase of the rooftop garden is still on track.
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