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IKEA Releases Free Design for Garden Sphere That Feeds Entire Neighborhood

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(2017). Blogspam for https://ikea.today/green-dreams-growroom/

I wonder how successful the Growroom has been, 3 years after release.

Are they missing all the lighting and irrigation in this plan? I don't see the LEDs or the power supply.

GitHub link for the design: https://github.com/space10-community/the-growroom

I think “feeds entire neighborhood” may be a bit of an exaggeration.

It's clickbait. They're grossly underestimating the size of a neighborhood, and grossly overestimating the frequency that you can harvest food that can sustain adults. There's also no sources on their claims, so it's just plain old clickbait.

I think it might be able to be an herb garden for a small neighborhood. But that's about it.

Can such a design really be sustainable though? I would think that it is much harder to implement sustainable practices in such a small scale.

For anyone that’s curious:

- It’s released by SPACE10, which is IKEA’s design lab (or one of?)

- Actual plans on Github: https://github.com/space10-community/the-growroom

- This definitely came up a few years ago, with the same nonsense blogspam/clickbait strategy

1) 10m x 10m is enough to supplement a neighborhood, not 3m x 3m.

2) I can see a lot of ladder accidents in the future!

Where are those numbers coming from? I've always been interested in how much space you really need to sustain X amount of people, but I can't find any real research. I'm probably not looking at the right combination of words, so I was wondering where you had gotten that number.

The best articles I've found on this topic were by preppers. Don't have a specific link to share but a quick google should yield some good results. Lots of preppers blogging about sustainable gardening, rabbit breeding populations, coffee substitutes, and more.

This seems small and I'm not sure how much it will actually produce...let alone maintenance.

Okay, who wants to build one? :)

You're totally right. I don't really want to build one on my own. I would however be SOOOOO WILLING to spend like 5-10k on a home grow operation. I don't think I have the experience to build something efficient on my own.

I'd buy one from Ikea and maybe a green house to erect around it. Pretty strange that a company with infinite amounts of particle board and plywood has left us holding the bag here.

My year of technical high school woodworking has unfortunately left me unable to build rounded planters like that.

Speaking of which, it's also not really clear to me why it's a sphere instead of a pyramid or a couple shelves. Doesn't look as cool I guess.

We'll start over! Live in villages!

sphere is about the worst design - cube, cylinder, cone or pyramid would be far superior

This is great, thanks for sharing!

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