Mad scientist's homestead is parking size, off-grid system
Mad scientist's homestead is parking size, off-grid system
Former Army tech Larry Johnson has spent his career improving computer and telephone systems so when he saw inefficiencies in how we grow our food, he decided to create a new system for farming your yard. His EZGro garden uses aquaponics, stacked towers, and custom pots to create a high-density vertical garden (HDVG) on as little land as a deck, rooftop, or parking space.
Johnson says the system will grow 700 plants, using 15 towers, in a space of just 2 by 18 feet. Today, he sells kits ranging from single tower patio gardens to 10-tower deck gardens to commercial-sized set-ups like those being used by a Miami football stadium for concession meals, by a Whole Foods Market in New Jersey, and by rooftop farmers in Lagos, Nigeria.
It all began in 1995 when Johnson began tinkering with his quad pot design, crafting a custom container strong enough to hold tomato plants with over 100 pounds of fruit. He then developed an irrigation system that feeds nutrient-rich water from the top of the towers, drips through the pots, and filters out through tubing below to be reused. This closed-loop system uses less than 10% of the water of a traditional garden.
To create a system robust enough for even off-grid farmers, Johnson has spent the last 2 decades developing his trihelix solar windmill. Solar panels are mounted on top of three turbines, known as the “Tri-Helix”, which are twisted like DNA strands to catch even inconsistent wind (turbines start turning in winds of just 2mph).
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This man is a true hero! Bless u sir!
Living legend, basically a one and done manufacturer with design transparency. He may or may not care about being a millionaire but he deserves it.
I love watching your videos! It’s really inspiring and gives me hope for the future. I love seeing ‘regular’ folks learning how to save our planet.
want all my salsa fixings here….hmmm….nice…
how many tomato plants per pot
Impressive set up… so how do those tomatoes taste?
If you’re interested in these types of vertical-axis windmills, be sure to search a bit for: "Savonius wind turbine". This will show you examples of similar turbine designs, which can you even make as a small science project using e.g. a Pringles tube or a (a bit more "serious") using a small section of rainwater pipe. 🙂
Note: make sure you stay safe though! When there are high wind speeds. Under high load (and when no braking/safety mechanism is present) parts can go flying when a wind turbine hasn’t been designed/constructed properly.
Who is this guy? More videos of him please!!!!
I could watch a 2 hour documentary on this guy.. dang!
Is it possible to use organic nutrients in a system like this?
Very cool, if the goal is fast efficient food is the goal 3d printable parts might be a good move. Half a dozen machines hoses, plastic totes, and a pump could be all you need.
The only thing that he is missing, is fish. Aquaponics would be the way to do this more properly.
This man get’s it. You follow the patterns around you.
The first electric motor / generator ever, was an Axial Flux design!
1821 Michael Faraday (British Physicist and Chemist) developed a primitive "disk motor" an axial flux machine.
Love this video
Dude had to have a lot of liquid cash to dump into all this non hand made stuff.
Yeah He’s Mad
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Amazing, his tomato’s are like grapes. Worth the investment
this guy is a genius
The doc brown of food growing
how can we get in touch w these people? they don’t answer emails, fbs, igs, twitters, yts, etc…
How can I contact this company?
Where can I buy this in Europe? Where do I get more info?
😊👍
6:12 I literally can’t take anything you post serious, every time there’s a half assed split in the audio to cobble together something out of context.
Wow, simplicity outperforming complex systems, what a great mindset he has.
The rich education…💚💚💚
This is invaluable information on how we can rebuild society.
Come on this wind turbine are produce less powe than your own dna chains.
this guy doesn’t know what he is talking abt. as far as turbines it’s been proven this savonius design like he is using has 6-7%efficiency, standard 3blade HAWT (horizontal axis wind turbine) is 45% efficient. Thats why noone ever build savonius for commercial purposes. although it’s easiest to made it’s useless in power generation
This is so cool. Now to combine a greenhouse with it would make it that much cooler.
next lvl shit bro
His internet solution looks like Teletonica made in Lithuania very good system some you can put in multiple simcards and add extra antennas
The guy could grow some real nice weed! 😂
I was hoping he was going to say "Flux Capacitor" at some point.
Where can I find "his" tri helix at to get started?
Genius!
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Wow, this bloke is absolutely brilliant
What an amazing man. You can tell that he’s so excited and happy engineering this stuff. Optimizing and making things more efficient. God bless you sir 🙌
Does he have a website how do I find his stuff so I can buy it for myself both the planters and the turbines
The wind spinny turbine design you are using… is it possible to run a household off those and have it actually work with a small amount of space?
so sad, all that thriving soil and not a single cannabis or hemp plant..
I want to make something like this deployable from a shipping container with like maybe a couple of Boston Dynamics spot robot type things. Maybe set up a foundation to make one for every homeless person in America and get them jobs making more to send overseas
We need a few billion of these systems everywhere.
This guy is brilliant! Seriously he’s on another level. I’m definitely buying his system for myself. Thanks for sharing.
if it could use only rain water THAT would be the best. also whats the nutrient? I’m dubious of how things are fertilized in hydro.
i saw this guy years ago and wrote to him, never replied. His windwill dna shape i remember him saying he could get 400 watts off each. Thanks for putting this up, now i have foundhim again.
awesome!!!
So much half truths and poor application of resources. His speech is inaccurate for the most part. The growing of plants is the best part.
This is awesome! Props to this veteran for taking his gift and giving us wonderful options!