Back to the Roots is such a lovely concept. It’s an indoor grow your own mushroom kit.
With growing spaces in urban areas limited, and allotments difficult to access, Back to the Roots is something that anyone can use regardless of space. Just plunk it on to your windowsill, open the front and water twice a day, and within 10 days the mushrooms caps appear. The kit yields about 1lb per crop and is able to produce multiple crops.
One of the coolest things about the kit is that the soil comes from 100% old, recycled coffee grounds. Also, 5% of each sale goes to support breast cancer research. BTTR is a fantastic all-consuming idea, and a nice way of bringing local sustainable farming to anyone’s windowsill.
Ps- Want to see more things you can do with coffee grounds (the possiblities are endless)? Check out A Happy Printer is Full of Beans.
(Spotted on Springwise)
Katherine Hui is currently the Social site editor at Green Thing, a web-based public service in London that inspires people to lead greener lives through creative content.
Before this, she worked as the Development Manager at Social Innovation Camp, an organization that encourages people to use web and mobile-based technology to mobilise social change. She oversaw 300 ideas submission and helped build 20 prototypes – five of which have gone on to get further funding or investment.
Katherine’s came over to the UK form Canada in 2007 for an MSc program at the London School of Economics. Before arriving in London, she managed a small environmental start-up in Vancouver called the Canadian Climate Change Alliance.
Katherine is football mad. She is a loyal supporter of Arsenal FC, plays for Islington Borough Ladies FC and coaches for Gunners in Islington in her spare time. Her second favourite hobby is kite surfing and she can sometimes be found chasing the wind.
