{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftech-bites.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fc6c30d66-c6c30d66","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Episode 72: GROW YOUR OWN","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/1072b3/1072b3f0-f4a0-4b09-a432-a68449412b79/3b575dbd-98ea-473b-9555-b5a91025293e/1474565276artwork.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"What's the best way to get people interested and involved in a better food system? Have them taste a ripe tomato at peak ripeness, picked off the vine. Once you’ve had a homegrown, perfectly ripened, chemical free tomato – how could you eat anything else? Getting people to experience growing their own food, at home or work, or even on water, is the focus of this episode. In-studio guests: Jenny Broutin Farah shares her SproutsIO personal micro-garden. Developed at the MIT Media Lab, it is soil-free, energy-efficient, hybrid hydroculture, wi-fi powered solution for people to grow their own produce year round. The Kickstarter campaign launches this week, hoping to raise $100,000 to put SproutsIO into production. To learn more, or back the project visit: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/451425606/sproutsio-smart-microgarden?ref=3c1308 Amanda McDonald Crowley shares her experience as a cultural worker and curator on the floating food forest project Swale NY. Swale NY wants urbanite to experience picking and eating fresh produce grown in public spaces – for the public. Currently at Pier 5 at Brooklyn Bridge Park, Swale NY is open to the public Thursdays – Sundays. To lean more visit: http://www.swaleny.org"}