A New Concept Of Urban Farming

URBANUTRIGARDEN

It is about resilient healthy and nutritious food production system at urban areas, rather than just growing crops. Can be indoor and outdoor, and harvest in hours, days, weeks or months.

The Concept

There are three aspects of Urbanutrigarden Concept:

  • Space & Planting Management
  • Organic Mindset
  • Waste Management

All can be done indoor and outdoor with practical methodology in order to be able to operate in a sustainable way.

Urbanutrigarden delivers four values:

  • Health
  • Environment
  • Economy
  • Aesthetic

Urbanutrigarden objective is to develop a healthy family in a healthy environment.

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Converting Growing Phases to Nutrition

Any growing phase is in fact the source of good nutrition. Starting from active seeds, to become germinated seeds, sprouting seeds, microgreens, baby leaf, mature leaf, flowers and fruits.

Active & Germinated

Complex compound food in cotyledon will be broken down to become simple compound with the existence of enzymes which will trigger the hormones in embryo. Ready in hours to days.

Sprouts

The seed is fully set up to start a new crops. Other phytochemical required to start a new life are exist. Ready in a week.

Microgreens

Cotyledon leaves are the only food repository to start growing. Food concentration in cotyledon leaves are very dense to be able to feed itself. Harvested in 1-2 weeks.

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Baby Leaves

Crops start to produce food through photosynthesis. Food type is in accordance with their characteristic. Harvest in 3-5 weeks.

Mature Leaves

This is the standard growing. Most of leafy vegetables are harvested in 1-2 months. Different type of vegetables will have different set of nutritions. 

Flowers 

Other than regular flower such as Broccoli and Cauliflower, many people start growing edible flowers, mostly used for garnish. It can also be functioned as pest control. 

Fruits

Most of fruits in urbanutrigarden are vegetables fruits such as tomato, egg plants, gourd, bean, strawberry etc. Each vegetable fruits have their own nutrition characteristic.

It’s time to grow your healthy food at home. Be healthy and save the earth

URBANUTRIGARDEN ASPECTS

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The ultimate goal of urbanutrigarden is to get wide range of nutrition, and to build the ecosystem at home. The processes are maximizing the resources at home including recyclable materials such as household waste, reusable materials for garden tools and sharable facilities such as kitchen, storage, water outlet etc.

Organic Mindset 

When we treat organic fertilizers and pesticides the same way with chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and the main focus is at crops, we call it doing organic with chemical mindset. In fact, organic fertilizers and pesticides have totally different characteristic with chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

Organic mindset is the integration and consistent execution of organic competences and organic agriculture principles with ethics.

Space & Planting Management 

Urbanutrigarden concept is utilizing all spaces available at your house to grow food. You can grow at soil, vertical planting, rooftop garden, rocky soil, sky garden and at any corner, be it outdoor and indoor. The concept includes the ability to harvest at any growing stage as you need. To produce food sustainably, we need to have a good planting pattern. Optionally, you can have livestock such as chickens or fish pond to complement your plant base nutrition.

Waste Management

Organic is about healthy soil and healthy environment. The sense of ecology is the integral part of growing organic. Recyclable and reusable waste reducing external input. Non-organic waste may be reused for garden tools, while organic waste is recycle with our Urbanutricompost concept. It is a comprehensive home friendly of composting methodology utilizing household waste. As a result, you can reduce the amount of waste thrown to your waste bin which in turn will reduce waste production at the landfill.

Urbanutrigarden Values

Urbanutrigarden is not just a garden. It is an edible garden with comprehensive and high values inside. There are Health value, Environmental, Economic, and Aesthetic

Health 

Urbanutrigarden will help the family fulfilling the nutrition needs. Doing Urbanutrigarden, especially outdoor, provide healthy physical activity for family members as well as mental health. Urbanutrigarden supports Public Health Program to improve and maintain family health by consuming healthy food and having healthy physical activity.

Environmental

Growing organic at land is building a true ecosystem. The direct impact of urbanutrigarden at urban area are retaining more water in the soil, absorbing more rain water, driving healthy and clean air, reducing household waste to landfill and improving people awareness on healthy environment.

Economic

Obtaining organic ingredients from Urbanutrigarden is much cheaper compare to organic purchase. Healthy physic will reduce the medical budget too. Urbanutrigarden can also be treated as alternative source of family income. The raw food and processed food are some opportunity to obtain more income.

Aesthetic

With good planting pattern, rotation and companion system will provide a beautiful and dynamic garden view. There are always variety of crops, color, shape and size.