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The humble Bin Towa
Posted by Eagles Rest on
I love how necessity and creativity drive innovation. This was demonstrated (and the process enjoyed!) in the making of the Bin Towa. We live rurally on a long, pot-hole laden, gravel road. When the local council issued new, big wheelie bins to replace the small blue crates; we were perplexed, to say the least. How were we going to get that big Bin down the lane? Necessity loomed over us and kick started our creativity. We wanted to obviously get the bin to the council's pick up location, but we realised we also wanted more... Nothing that would make the...
Strawberries
Posted by Eagles Rest on
Most people in Auckland, New Zealand enjoy their fresh strawberries at Christmas time; I'm enjoying my harvest already in August! It never stops amazing me how wonderfully the GroBot works!We were planting our strawberries out in the garden and I thought to take one and put it in a large, red GroBot on our kitchen windowsill. It was really a "why not? In theory it should work" effort. (It certainly did work!) By the end of August the GroBot plant was ready to begin harvesting beautiful red berries, while the garden plants were only just getting a few flowers. Incredible....
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