Biosphere Home Farming

by 3d_admin · September 24, 2014

Incredible Biosphere Home Farming concept by Philips

Home Farming explores growing at least part of your daily calorific requirement inside your house. This biosphere home farm has been designed to occupy a minimum of floor space and instead to stack the various mini-ecosystems on top of each other. It contains fish, crustaceans, algae and edible plants, all interdependent and in balance with each other. Water filtration, recycling of nutrients and optimum use of sunlight are all central to its appeal.

When you are living in the suburbs or the country side, it’s easy to grow your own food. Veggies like tomatoes and some fruits like apples tend to grow quite easily. However, the closer you move to a city, the harder it gets. It’s just the lack of green space. Not a lot of people have access to huge gardens in the city center. That’s where this concept from Philips tries to help out allowing people to grow their own food, no matter where they are located.

Biosphere Home Farming by Philips

Philips came up with this self sufficient autonomous mini farm. This somewhat futuristic kitchen concept will help produce part of the foods needed by a family living in an apartment. It will make fish, vegetables, plants, and algae work together in order to sustain itself. This mini biosphere system will produce filtered water, gas, and food using kitchen garbage.

Biosphere Home Farming by Philips

One thing that this concept doesn’t use is electricity. It uses the energy of the sun, as well as organic garbage so that different little ecosystems are able to function together. The first two levels contain different plants. Next, there are algae followed by fish and shrimp. The last layer uses organic garbage. Apparently, this system can produce some veggies, as well as different fish and shellfish fit for consumption. It also produces methane gas, which can be harnessed to power your kitchen.

Biosphere Home Farming by Philips

Biosphere Home Farming by Philips sounds like an amazing thing, if it can be made. We think that this concept addresses the urban farming problem. With something like this, it could be easy for people living in the city to grow their own foods. We like how all biospheres in this mini farm are harnessed to produce something useful, from plants to natural gas.