I have since moved from Hong Kong but within my 5 years stay in the bustling city, I remember one teacher showed us students one of your videos "Extreme transformer home in Hong Kong..". Since then, I have come to love your channel; from insightful content on the slow foods movement, consumerist culture and how degrading does not mean to degrade, etc,. Thank you Kirsten and Nicolas for this wonderful learning journey!
Great video! I love that earth bag seating idea with the softer concrete mixture. They have a great permaculture set up the way they use all of the land and resources.
This is great to see. I'm building a conservatory for my home in London at the moment and I plan to build an aquaponic system in it. I estimate that if it was optimal it could probably provide enough fish, fruit and veg for 1 adult. If I did a loft conversion that could do the same making a city home almost self sufficient in food production. Aquaponics is a closed system with ridiculously low water (and other inputs) requirement compared to traditional fish or arable farming. No spoilage from farm to market or from market to plate. Shipping dry fish food around rather than water laden vegetables and packaging. The food on your plate is organic and as fresh as it could possibly be. I don't believe it is a technical challenge to feed future populations. I believe it is a challenge to alter people's relationship with the produce they eat. I don't see many people in London today wanting to fish some tilapia out of their tank, kill and gut it and cook it, to grow the majority of their own vegetables at home or to maintain an aquaponic system, but really all of that is no more work than the shopping, carrying, driving and disposing they do today. There are 2 futures that seem to be available for food production: Meet growing demand with synthetic beef, grasshopper or worm burgers, shaped and flavoured algae based simulated vegetables etc... or local and/or personal micro-production like this video shows. Micro-production can enrich our lives, while synthetic and alternative protein sources and highly processed food allows us to continue living a life detached from the production of what we put inside our bodies. I prefer the former. I think it is worth re-engaging with food production as a society.
Poignant quote there for me: "Hong Kong's got a lotta land, on the side of buildings." The way the world is going we're so gonna need a Gravbenda(tm), Escher inspired high-rise permaculture farms, Back to the Future fruit garden centers, and rehydrating pizza ovens...
that smog tho.. shouldnt that be an equal priority ? .. great work your doing there btw, love the idea about making every 5th floor a food production area.. more video's like this needed, seems really relevant for the tiny house community.. thanks kirsten.
Amazing! I volunteered on organic and Permaculture farms while wwoofing in Australia. I would like to come and visit the place one day. Where exactly is it?
Right, because 7+ million people can be fed by emulating this dudes little backyard-sized garden plot that doesn't even produce enough to feed the 5 people it takes to maintain it...
Amazingly creative and beautiful! Was the land donated by the government for this purpose? This is something we could all do, no matter where we are. Bye bye Monsanto and GMO!¡!!!!!
Hong Kong isn't sustainable, but very high-density living like HK is a lot better environmentally than American suburbs. A typical HK resident lives in a very small and energy efficient residence compared to the states and doesn't drive a car 12,000 miles a year.
The USA has infinite land because they stole it all from the real (native) Americans. And if any resources are missing, they'll steal from any country that has them.
why do you ppl insist to pass on you psychotic thinking instead of getting the fuking message ? seems that we are surrounded by consumer moron slaves !
Truth Inspector "It seems like all of asia is like that"....hmm......you clearly have never travelled to Asia ... or maybe your brain has swallowed too many tv reports/programs about the air pollution in the big coastal cities of China...... Asia is a huge land mass.....Asia is more than just Chinese cities...there are many parts of Asia( non-urban areas) where the air is clean and nature is intact....example,the Malaysian rainforest ,Borneo rainforest, Cameron Highlands in Malaysia, Tibetan plateau, the Himalayan regions in India, Nepal and Bhutan, and not to forget the vast steppes of Central Asian .
i feel like it would be extremely hard to grow properly organic food or anything for that matter in hong kong/china as a whole because of how polluted their air and soil must be...mainly the air....fuck yeah love toxic heavy metals and gasses in my air and food
antinsanwo not all of China is polluted! It's mostly the eastern coastal industrial regions that are polluted....there are many parts of the country particularly in the interior region/countryside where nature is lush and the air is clean.
I have since moved from Hong Kong but within my 5 years stay in the bustling city, I remember one teacher showed us students one of your videos "Extreme transformer home in Hong Kong..". Since then, I have come to love your channel; from insightful content on the slow foods movement, consumerist culture and how degrading does not mean to degrade, etc,. Thank you Kirsten and Nicolas for this wonderful learning journey!
Another wonderful video, thank you Kirsten and all the contributors to your channel. Your videos are always a ray of light.
Like. Like. Like. I live in HK and had no idea something as cool as this was happening.
I love to get in with a group of people like this and help them while learning too.
Very nice work and vision! Please give us an updated video series of how they will keep on building their garden/farm!
This was awesome! Thanks for sharing!
I am a Hongkonger and I love this.
Love this guy
Great video! I love that earth bag seating idea with the softer concrete mixture. They have a great permaculture set up the way they use all of the land and resources.
Would love to see that pond once it has life added to it! Water's going to clear up nicely. Great video growing food, especially in urban areas.
Good on ya, boys. Will be great to see and revisit this in a years' time.
I'd love to see this place after it's all finished, it will be amazing and beautiful!
Another great video! Thank you!!!!!!
Nice work, very inspiring and hopeful.
I'm anxious to see this project in a couple years as it matures.
Wow, I love this!
This is great to see.
I'm building a conservatory for my home in London at the moment and I plan to build an aquaponic system in it. I estimate that if it was optimal it could probably provide enough fish, fruit and veg for 1 adult. If I did a loft conversion that could do the same making a city home almost self sufficient in food production.
Aquaponics is a closed system with ridiculously low water (and other inputs) requirement compared to traditional fish or arable farming. No spoilage from farm to market or from market to plate. Shipping dry fish food around rather than water laden vegetables and packaging. The food on your plate is organic and as fresh as it could possibly be.
I don't believe it is a technical challenge to feed future populations. I believe it is a challenge to alter people's relationship with the produce they eat. I don't see many people in London today wanting to fish some tilapia out of their tank, kill and gut it and cook it, to grow the majority of their own vegetables at home or to maintain an aquaponic system, but really all of that is no more work than the shopping, carrying, driving and disposing they do today.
There are 2 futures that seem to be available for food production: Meet growing demand with synthetic beef, grasshopper or worm burgers, shaped and flavoured algae based simulated vegetables etc... or local and/or personal micro-production like this video shows.
Micro-production can enrich our lives, while synthetic and alternative protein sources and highly processed food allows us to continue living a life detached from the production of what we put inside our bodies.
I prefer the former. I think it is worth re-engaging with food production as a society.
Looks nice as long as they don't slash large tracts of the beautiful woodlands.
Cool project. Bright green stream not looking too healthy though.
Poignant quote there for me: "Hong Kong's got a lotta land, on the side of buildings." The way the world is going we're so gonna need a Gravbenda(tm), Escher inspired high-rise permaculture farms, Back to the Future fruit garden centers, and rehydrating pizza ovens...
that smog tho.. shouldnt that be an equal priority ? ..
great work your doing there btw, love the idea about making every 5th floor a food production area..
more video's like this needed, seems really relevant for the tiny house community.. thanks kirsten.
Amazing! I volunteered on organic and Permaculture farms while wwoofing in Australia. I would like to come and visit the place one day. Where exactly is it?
Don't forget to "like" the video. Great channel!
Interesting!
coco crete!, i great idea, going to make some here on the bigisland, mahalo. juan in the boonies
very cool :)
awesome vid. did anyone also catch his HKS turbo shirt?
Right, because 7+ million people can be fed by emulating this dudes little backyard-sized garden plot that doesn't even produce enough to feed the 5 people it takes to maintain it...
Ande you should look up a video on youtube 6,000lbs of food on 1/10 acre.
I live in Hong Kong.
Amazingly creative and beautiful! Was the land donated by the government for this purpose? This is something we could all do, no matter where we are. Bye bye Monsanto and GMO!¡!!!!!
I know whom I'm hanging with after civilization collapses ^_^
the man doing the talking.... what is his name?
The entire project is very cool!
I do not know what some people eat but I don't see any food there :)
Hong Kong isn't sustainable, but very high-density living like HK is a lot better environmentally than American suburbs. A typical HK resident lives in a very small and energy efficient residence compared to the states and doesn't drive a car 12,000 miles a year.
Brad Thomas Valid points here, pluses and minuses in both ways of life.
Brad Thomas Except their food and other products do the driving for them. Although your living space point is quite valid.
The USA has infinite land because they stole it all from the real (native) Americans. And if any resources are missing, they'll steal from any country that has them.
i think kirsten had a crush on the long hair'd hippy
why do you ppl insist to pass on you psychotic thinking instead of getting the fuking message ? seems that we are surrounded by consumer moron slaves !
geez, get a life, go out and plant a tree or something, maybe yo can realize the distance from nature !
The smog turn me off ever wanting to visit there. It seems like all of Asia is like that, they don't have the sky anymore.
Truth Inspector "It seems like all of asia is like that"....hmm......you clearly have never travelled to Asia ... or maybe your brain has swallowed too many tv reports/programs about the air pollution in the big coastal cities of China...... Asia is a huge land mass.....Asia is more than just Chinese cities...there are many parts of Asia( non-urban areas) where the air is clean and nature is intact....example,the Malaysian rainforest ,Borneo rainforest, Cameron Highlands in Malaysia, Tibetan plateau, the Himalayan regions in India, Nepal and Bhutan, and not to forget the vast steppes of Central Asian .
Havent been to all of it for sure. Just going by personal experience
Swoon!
i feel like it would be extremely hard to grow properly organic food or anything for that matter in hong kong/china as a whole because of how polluted their air and soil must be...mainly the air....fuck yeah love toxic heavy metals and gasses in my air and food
antinsanwo not all of China is polluted! It's mostly the eastern coastal industrial regions that are polluted....there are many parts of the country particularly in the interior region/countryside where nature is lush and the air is clean.