#aeroponics

Oh! Let me guess.

Was it…

A super advanced aeroponics suite running on self-directing nanotechnology powered by condensed vacuum energy?

No?

Oh well that sucks.

How underwhelming.

Some pics from my visit to an urban farm :)

Showcasing aeroponics + aquaponics (first 5 pics) and hydroponics (last pic) -- sustainable food production methods and alternatives to traditional farming!

A little presentation my group made about it, under the cut:

Learn more: https://hydroponicway.com/how-to-grow-plants-with-the-kratky-hydroponics

The Kratky hydroponic growing technique is simple, effective and easy to use.

However, it can be improved upon with these tips.

[ID - Drawing of the cockpit of Jango’s ship in Attack of the Clones, but it’s filled with plants going up to the ceiling.]

Vague idea based on this quote from Packing for Mars by Mary Roach:

People can’t anticipate how much they’ll miss the natural world until they are deprived of it. … Nothing tops space as a barren, unnatural environment. Astronauts who had no prior interest in gardening spend hours tending experimental greenhouses. “They are our love,” said cosmonaut Vladislav Volkov of the tiny flax plants with which they shared the confines of Salyut 1, the first Soviet space station. At least in orbit, you can look out the window and see the natural world below. On a Mars mission, once astronauts lose sight of Earth, there’ll be nothing to see outside the window. “You’ll be bathed in permanent sunlight, so you won’t even see any stars,” astronaut Andy Thomas explained to me. “All you’ll see is black.”

The general idea in actual canon seems to be that sentients have been spacefaring for so long that they don’t need nature in the same way we do. But what if they did? What if every ship that was going to be away from a planet for longer than a day at a time was equipped with aeroponics almost everywhere? Different rooms at different humidity levels and temperatures to grow different plants. Plants along the walls and ceilings and mushrooms under bunks. What if long haul transports and bounty hunters made time to stop in front of suns on their way places to give their plants light? Most people do ration packs, but everyone who spends a lot of time in space has their own combinations of self-grown herbs and additions that make them taste great - only newbies actually eat ration packs alone. Trading rare seeds for favors. Plants cultivated to grow better with intermittent sunlight, or to photosynthesize from hyperspace.