Britta Riley: A garden in my apartment
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Britta Riley wanted to grow her own food (in her tiny apartment). So she and her friends developed a system for growing plants in discarded plastic bottles -- researching, testing and tweaking the system using social media, trying many variations at once and quickly arriving at the optimal system. Call it distributed DIY. And the results? Delicious.
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Britta Riley: A garden in my apartment
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britta riley and rebecca bray: windowfarms
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