Babylon Crops
The Babylon Crops project is inspired by other open source initiatives and is oriented towards the alimentary self-sufficiency of people not only in urban environments but wherever there is sun and soil.
As the Hanging gardens of Babylon, this wonder is yet to be uncovered.
Gardens of Babylon by Dutch artist Maarten van Heemskerck. Source: Wikipedia
We want to summarize the works of others in this area into one single social project:
- Zelemenjava in Slovenia is an spontaneous community of interchanging food and other goods that happens on Saturdays, some Saturdays (https://www.facebook.com/Zelemenjava)
- HarvestGeek is a project developed by Evolved Agriculture. It is open-source, wireless, Internet of Things Greenhouse monitoring and automation system for your farm or garden (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2077260917/harvestgeek-brains-for-your-garden).
- Windowfarms began as an experiment developing environmental solutions through open source collaboration and has evolved into a social enterprise, a successful business that organically fulfills a mission toward healthier people and a healthier planet (http://www.windowfarms.com)
Poti-poti.org wants to canalize all this energies into one macro-project where networking is expanded from the virtual world of the internet into the real world of solving food problems.
Imagine the possibility of exchanging your own self-grown food with your near neighbors, while making available the relevant information about their development (light hours, average humidity, etc).
This is Babylon Crops. Welcome to a happy future.
