The Messy World of Fermentation
Low-tech SolutionsWhen modernity meets its end-point and creates a world where everything is sterile, controlled, and known, there will be little space for fermentation.
Articles by Aaron Vansintjan
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Urban Fish Ponds: Low-tech Sewage Treatment for Towns and Cities
Obsolete TechnologyIn the mid 20th century, whole cities’ sewage systems safely and successfully used fish to treat and purify their water. Waste-fed fish ponds are a low-tech, cheap, and sustainable alternative to deal with our own shit — and to obtain high protein food in the process.
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Vietnam’s Low-tech Food System Takes Advantage of Decay
Low-tech SolutionsVietnam’s decentralised food system has low energy inputs and reduced food waste, giving us a glimpse of what an alternative food system might look like
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Pigeon Towers: A Low-tech Alternative to Synthetic Fertilizers
Obsolete TechnologyPigeon towers helped Persian farmers cultivate all kinds of crops on previously arid, thin-soil land.
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Garum: Fermented Fish Sauce for the Ancient Roman Masses
Obsolete TechnologyFish fermentation allowed the ancient Romans to store their fish surplus for long periods, in a time when there were no freezers and fishing was bound to fish migratory patterns.
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Water Johads: A Low-Tech Alternative to Mega-Dams in India
Low-tech SolutionsBefore the British arrived, people on the subcontinent used traditional low-cost, low-tech engineering to collect rainwater for thousands of years.