#spacefarming — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #spacefarming, aggregated by home.social.
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In controlled environments like vertical farms or greenhouses, using electricity to convert energy into light with LEDs is not the most efficient way because plants waste the majority of that energy. A professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering has figured out a way to grow plants 🌱 in the dark. An electrolyzer turns #CO2 into acetate, and genetically engineered plants use that acetate to grow in the absence of light https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereknorman/2026/06/11/the-moonshot-to-grow-food-in-space/
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Chia fed the Aztecs. Now it might feed astronauts. A new study tests chia microgreens against the cosmic radiation of deep space - and they hold up well. 🌱🚀
https://spacebotany.uk/blog/chia-microgreens-show-promising-resilience-to-space-like-radiation/
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Researchers grew mushrooms from mycelium that spent a month in space - and they were delicious!
https://spacebotany.uk/blog/we-ate-space-mushrooms-and-survived-to-tell-the-tale/
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Mission Report: 23 September 2025
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://spacebotany.uk/blog/mission-report-23-september-2025/
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The Space Sprouts demo is incredibly charming! 🚀 I love the unique gameplay and chaotic movements. I can tell the story has a lot of potential. Excited for when this game launches.
Dev: https://schleudergame.org/
Wishlis on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2790020/Space_Sprouts/🌌 Check it out: https://youtu.be/vQWmWXFvhN4
#SpaceSprouts #IndieGame #SpaceSim #SpaceGame #Simulation #Gaming #IndieDev #SpaceFarming #NewVideo
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From #SpaceFarming to STEM education: Grace Crain-Wright is making science exciting! 🌱💡
As part of the European Space Agency’s #MELiSSA project, she tackled a wild challenge: growing plants using human waste-derived nutrients (yes, really!). Her research at ETH Zürich helped shape the future of sustainable space travel and circular agriculture on Earth.
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#Plantbreeding can remove toxic compounds from #potatoes & #tomatoes, making them safer to eat & easier to store. The breakthrough could cut #foodwaste and enhance crop #farming in space & other extreme environments: https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2024/12/20/growing-safer-spuds-removing-toxins-potatoes #glycoalkaloids #foodsafety #shelflife #spacefarming
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Plant food could be grown on the red planet: Mars has no nutrients or organic matter, so there’s no real soil in its regolith, but tomatoes, peas & carrots might grow well if housed in colonies with greenhouse-like structures to protect them: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03345-x #spacefarming
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Some useful payload for greenhouses 🌱 on #Mars 🔴 ? 🤔 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVcQp-WQbF0
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#Potato 🥔 is believed to be one of the top contenders for #SpaceAgriculture. Whole-Body Edible and Elite Plant (#WBEEP) development might create a potato for #SpaceFarming 🌱🌌 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26238-3
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Will future astronauts farm silkworms for food?
#SpaceFood #EdibleInsects #SpaceFarming
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2023/09/27/do-silkworms-have-a-future-in-space/
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“According to mushroom growers and scientists designing future foods for astronauts, there are a lot of good reasons why fungi might make an important contribution to spacefaring humans' diets, from their nutritional profile to their ability to grow quickly in dark, confined spaces.”
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Gardeners of the Galaxy year in review. In March, I spoke with Jeremy Curtis of the UK Space Agency about the famous apple pips Tim Peake took to the International Space Station!
#podcast #gardening #SpacePlants #astrobotany #SpaceFarming
https://theunconventionalgardener.com/blog/newtons-space-apples-with-jeremy-curtis-gotg40/
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Gardeners of the Galaxy Year in Review. I have such fond memories of this episode from February, chatting about sending dates into space with Dr Carl Carruthers 🤩
#podcast #gardening #SpacePlants #astrobotany #SpaceFarming
https://theunconventionalgardener.com/blog/space-plant-payloads-with-carl-carruthers-gotg39/