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Image: Varieties of gourd shapes onn their drying shelves!

25 minutes

How to Grow Your Own Bowls, Lamps, and Baskets!

Can we seriously grow everything we need in our backyard? To explore this question, on this edition of Saturday’s Around the World we’re traveling to an enchanting land to meet a woman who can transform plants into almost any object you desire!

Image: two young farmers picking basil in a Square Roots container!

11 minutes

[ Innovation ]

Can You Fit a 2-Acre Garden in a Shipping Container?

By Sam Burns

How do we increase access to fresh, nutritious foods in places lacking the land to grow it? Square Roots may be bringing us towards the solution by growing the equivalent of a 2-acre garden inside a shipping container!

Image: Carrots of many colors arranged in a swirl

7 minutes

[ Thought Leaders ]

This Garden In a Pool Helps Put an End to Food Scarcity

By Sam Burns

What if an unused pool could be our blueprint to a more abundant future? It turns out that if we’re a little creative, we can breathe new life into almost anything and build everything we need in fascinating close-looped systems! Here’s one great example of a movement to revitalize our human ingenuity!

Image: Beekeepers on a rooftop in London, England

16 minutes

[ Saturdays Around the World ]

Fly Through London with Some Urban Bees

By Liesl Ulrich-Verderber

Explore London from the fun and fascinating perspective of some of its smallest and most industrious inhabitants, the bees! They may not seem like the perfect urbanites but they have found some remarkable ways to adapt to life in the big city.