My round-up of stories from the world of space plants and gardening this week includes an update on EDEN LUNA, a Biosphere 2 retrospective & French food heading for the ISS!

#astrobotany #SpacePlants

https://spacebotany.uk/blog/mission-report-8-july-2025/

Mission Report: 8 July 2025 - Space Botany

My top stories from the world of space plants and gardening. This week we've got an update on EDEN LUNA, a Biosphere 2 retrospective & French food heading for the ISS!

Space Botany

My top stories from the world of space plants and gardening include space bioreactors, a cultural crop seed payload, anthocyanins and synthetic lichen on Mars!

#astrobotany #SpacePlants

https://spacebotany.uk/blog/mission-report-1-july-2025/

Mission Report: 1 July 2025 - Space Botany

My top stories from the world of space plants and gardening include space bioreactors, a cultural crop seed payload, anthocyanins and synthetic lichen on Mars!

Space Botany

This week's collection of stories from the world of space plants and gardening includes plants for the Moon and for Mars, and fungi to mine asteroids.

#SpacePlants #astrobotany

https://spacebotany.uk/blog/mission-report-24-june-2025/

Mission Report: 24 June 2025 - Space Botany

My Top 10 Stories from the world of space plants and gardening. This week we've got plants for the Moon and for Mars, and fungi to mine asteroids.

Space Botany

Cannabis seeds were among the biological payloads in MayaSat-1, which launched on the SpaceX Transporter 14 rideshare mission last night.

#SpacePlants #astrobotany #Cannabis

https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-sending-cannabis-seeds-space-weed/

Scientists Are Sending Cannabis Seeds to Space

The versatile cannabis plant could, some scientists think, one day be useful for lunar and Martian colonists. For now, researchers will subject its seeds to radiation in orbit and see what happens.

WIRED

This one couldn't be more British. Scientists in Kent are going to try growing tea seedlings grown in Devon in Martian and Moon regolith simulants.

#SpacePlants #astrobotany #tea

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cddz7mpr4e7o

Experts look at possibility of growing tea plants in space

Seedlings have been planted in soils similar to those found on the Moon and Mars.

BBC News

The lovely people at Plants 4 Space have contibuted to another educational video on the topic of growing plants in space.

https://youtu.be/2vnx89v9b1w

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Plants and Life in Space: Space farming

YouTube

My round-up of this week's stories from the world of space plants and gardening includes upcoming astrobotany events, Raman spectroscopy, cool art and more!

#SpacePlants #astrobotany

https://spacebotany.uk/blog/mission-report-17-june-2025/

Mission Report: 17 June 2025 - Space Botany

This week's round-up of stories from the world of space plants and gardening includes upcoming astrobotany events, Raman spectroscopy, cool art and more!

Space Botany
I finished growing my first plant on #Astrobotany ! now I have a new one :)

Scientists in China reckon that adding diatoms to lunar regolith could make it more fertile for growing plants.

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https://spacebotany.uk/blog/moon-dirt-meet-diatoms-a-recipe-for-extraterrestrial-farming/

Moon Dirt, Meet Diatoms โ€“ A Recipe for Extraterrestrial Farming - Space Botany

To grow gardens on the Moon, we might need to invite some diatoms to the party.

Space Botany

This week's Mission Report is now live. It has plants launching on (now delayed) Axiom-4, a 3D-printed module for space experiments, magnets for plants in microgravity and more!

#astrobotany #SpacePlants

https://spacebotany.uk/blog/mission-report-10-june-2025/

Mission Report: 10 June 2025 - Space Botany

This week's top stories from the world of space plants and gardening include the plants launching on Axiom-4, a 3D-printed module for space experiments, magnets for plants in microgravity and more!

Space Botany