Adonis Diaries

PlantZoo: Plant biodiversity with plenty of advantages

PlantZoo is the name and label for my new daydream project.

I watched a documentary describing how vegetables are grown using filtered and recycled water from fish tanks.

The water from the fish tank is rich in nitrate compounds, the necessary ingredients for vegetables to grow without soil or fertilizers.

I guess instead of soil to stabilize the vegetables, a compost of mixed shredded coconut hairs and other leaves are used.

And I wondered: This is the future to grow fresh and healthy vegetables without the need of much land.

All you need is to build transparent edifices, shelves for the vegetable buckets, water from the nearby fish tanks and costumers to pay you visits every day to select and buy fresh produce.

The edifice is to be transparent to let in the light and the proper density of small holes to let in fresh air and keep the place relatively dry and warm, depending on the climate and environment.

You have a lighted place, colourful fish to harvest , tasty vegetables to grow and all kinds of roses and flowers to satisfy your eyes and soul. That’s heaven.

And you don’t need to worry about any climate, no matter how extreme and harsh it is outside the edifice.

You can eat fresh vegetables in desert or Antarctic places, with minimal amount of water.

I have been daydreaming of constructing these edifices for weeks now.

I want to build within these edifices trademark facilities to host associations caring for the well being of children, elderly people, continuing education for the elementary and secondary students, health facilities, technical schools, technology centers, environmental NGO’s…

Trademark facilities within a lovely, warm and colorful environment with relevant architectural structures that define the objective of the hosted facility.

The construction of the transparent edifice could be carried out relatively fast if we stick to a very few models with prefabricated walls, fish tanks, vegetable buckets, filtering facilities, water canalization and heat conserving techniques drawn from the sun, wind and other mechanism.

Training professional teams for the PlantZoo can quickly disseminate this new business venture that does not require much land, or water, and is relatively climate free.

And you can hire many people who will be glad to wake up and leave to a most welcoming destination, close to where they live.

Note: The land in the structure can be used for fruit trees.