The initial idea was born out of frustration. I wanted to stop spending ridiculous amounts on organic food from stores and decided that I wanted to try gardening. As many have experienced, I got frustrated quickly as I didn’t really know what to plant or how to grow it. If I was lucky enough that my plants sprouted, by the time they were growing I had bugs eating holes in them or it took me so long to get it growing that the winter was approaching and I had to stop my efforts anyway.

All in all a frustrating experience to be honest. So I was thinking to build an indoor garden to support my family. This actually worked out to be much easier than I had thought. Take a look at our Build Your Own page to see how you can start, and see more details here).

Here I was now with this garden that finally grew but it took so much space in our house that my husband would get frustrated. 

Start of a Sustainable Journey

That’s how I had the idea to design the HydroArtPod. It solved several problems I had. For starters I hung it on the wall, so my husband had nothing to complain about :-). Secondly I made it pretty as I really did not want to have an ugly item to be hanging around my living room. Thirdly I made it easy to operate. Having two kids I had certainly no time to spend on growing my own food, therefore it had to be somewhat self-growing. So it would need less time on maintaining it than looking after our fish in our aquarium.