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HortoSmart – AI Gardening for Smart Vegan Spaces
HortoSmart – AI Gardening for Smart Vegan Spaces
IMPORTANT: this is a digital e-book
- You’ll receive it by e-mail immediately after purchase.
- Includes 2 formats: EPUB and PDF.
- You will receive it in ENGLISH, but you can also read it in one of the other five major languages: italian, french, german, spanish, and portuguese.
All editions are included in the same download: simply open the folder of your preferred language.
No physical shipment: instant reading, zero waiting.
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- You can also find the paperback edition on Amazon.
Perfect if you love reading with the scent of paper in your hands.
HortoSmart – Grow the Future in Style
This Premium Edition contains extra content and exclusive original illustrations created for this version.
Details and Specifications
- Format: Premium Illustrated eBook
- Pages: approximately 210
- Reading level: Vegans, vegetarians, green-style lovers, curious citizens
- Language: Italian
- Publication date: 2025
- Publisher: Steel Mind Books
What you will find in this book
- ✔️ Simple techniques for growing real food even on a small balcony
- ✔️ An AI-driven system for planting, harvesting and management
- ✔️ Elegant and practical solutions for city gardens, even in small spaces
- ✔️ Vegan recipes with ingredients grown by you, step by step
- ✔️ A radical yet accessible approach to living better, eating better, being freer
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Chapter Index
- Why Grow Today – Health, Independence, and the Green Revolution
- The Future of Urban Self-Sufficiency – Digital Gardens, AI, and Resilience
- Choosing the Right Space – Balconies, Patios, Windows, and Roofs
- Designing Your Micro-Garden – Layout, Exposure, Accessibility
- Soil, pots, and minimal tools – The basis of every cultivation
- Light and Water: Two Vital Forces – Smart Irrigation and Sun Exposure
- Vegan Seeds and Plants Selection – Vegetables, Herbs, Legumes, and Crop Rotation
- Knowing Your Microclimate – How It Affects Growth and Choices
- AI as a Personal Gardener – How HortoSmart Helps You
- Effective AI Prompts – Writing and Describing Your Ecosystem Well
- Photographing and Mapping Space – How to Use Images to Enhance Your Media
- Personalized Sowing Calendar – Month by Month, Zone by Zone
- Simplified Growing Techniques – A Practical Guide for Smart Lazy People
- Natural and DIY Defense – Against Parasites, Fungi, and Stress
- Growing Vertically and Hydroponically – When Space Isn't Enough
- Recovering and Regenerating Waste – Urban Composting and Biohacks
- Smart Harvesting and Preservation – Simple and Long-Lasting Methods
- From the Earth to the Vegan Plate – Easy Recipes with What You Grow
- Growing in Community – Shared Gardens, Local Networks, Urban Synergies
- The Future is Green (and Smart) – Summary, Vision, and Your New Freedom
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Premium Content
- Growing in Extreme Spaces: Techniques for 1m² Micro-Gardens
- Low-Cost Automation: How to Create a Self-Watering and Self-Regulating Garden
Excerpt from the book
“In the chaos of hyperconnectivity, industrial food, and tasteless food, growing food becomes a political act. Every seed you plant is a declaration of intent: 'I choose what I want to eat. And I create it with my own hands.'”
Why read it?
- Why you don't need a campaign to cultivate your food freedom
- Because with a balcony, a little light and this book, you can start right away
- Because an urban garden is not only useful: it is also beautiful, elegant and revolutionary.
“The future isn't bought. It's cultivated. With style.”
— Steel Mind Books
Extended description
We live in an age where fruit is packaged in plastic and the earth seems light-years away. But today, with HortoSmart, you can transform every square meter into a small ecosystem of freedom.
This book is a comprehensive and refined guide for those who live in the city and dream of growing their own food: you don't need hectares of land, just a corner of light and an open mind.
From space design to the use of artificial intelligence, from the simplest techniques to autonomous garden management, each page accompanies you with clarity, concreteness, and an ethical vision.
With vegan recipes, natural solutions, minimal tools, and tips on how to use AI for every step, HortoSmart is the first step to changing your relationship with food, technology, and your daily freedom.
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I really liked this book. It’s stylish, clean, and honestly kinda inspiring — the mix of AI and vegan gardening feels new and pretty fun. The design and the tone make you wanna grab a pot, some soil, and start growing right away.
That said, sometimes it gets a bit too idealistic. Like, not everyone living in a Toronto condo can turn their balcony into a digital jungle. A few of the “AI tricks” sound cool but not super practical unless you already geek out on tech.
Still, the message hits: growing your own food is freedom, and the book makes that feel possible, even for beginners. It’s not perfect, but it’s modern, ethical, and definitely worth a read.
Four solid stars. Stylish, smart, maybe a little too dreamy — but in a good way.
Really Cool 😎 book
Reviews in Other Languages
Assolutamente geniale!!!!!!
Bellissimo! Anche le illustrazioni meravigliose.