Small Space Living Embraces Urban Agriculture

  I love the idea of bringing the outside inside. For so many of us living in spaces where we have no access to an outdoor area can feel so limiting at times. Wouldn't it be nice if you could grow your own ingredients for a salad or herbs to season your food with all year round? In your own home at that?

Live plant walls inside your space.

In the past few years there has been a fascination with live plant walls. It's a big hit in urban cities all over the world where nature is scarce. You may have seen them on roofs of buildings or crawling up the side of  brick walls. What's amazing about these plants are they can be created to live on the inside as well. How nice would it be to see plant walls in your doctors office, school, health club, or maybe even somewhere in your home.

Not only are they beautiful, it's wonderful to bring a little nature inside. These green wall installations work as great air purifiers and are fantastic eye candy. 



Andrea Clears the Air

Indoor air quality has been recognized by the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) as being quite poor due to a variety of causes such as radon gas leaks, second hand smoke, mold and synthetic plastics used for furniture and other products that can emit airborne pollutants such as benzene, formaldehyde and trichloroethylene which causes off gassing. It is also possible these pollutants can be associated with causing health problems such as asthma, allergies, heart failure and cancer. Improving indoor air quality is a great concern and there are simple things you can do to avoid having a toxic interior.

Clean air filters and check for radon leaks regularly. NASA identified that there are several plants that can be used to absorb toxins in the air. These plants are the gerbera, philodendron, spathiphyllum, pathos and the chlorophytum are plants/greenery that can absorb toxic gasses cleaning the air.

The Andrea Air Filter has found a way to optimize the filtering of these plants. Basically the plant of your choice (from the above list) can be placed in this box of aluminum and Pyrex which is designed as a natural filter which has three components; the leaves, the roots and a humid bath. Genius!