Looking for a green gift that will really blow the recipient away? These Kabloom Seedboms are just the thing. Made up of an explosive mix of organic compost and flower seeds packed in a recycled paper shell, these “grenades” do more growing than blowing up. All you have to do is chuck one into any soil-filled patch of land, and then check back over the next few weeks as it fills with fragrant flora.
[...] Seed bombing is about to jump to a whole new level of awesomeness. A fleet of unused and decommissioned C-130 Hercules cargo planes, originally created to drop land mines, will be recommissioned as foresters. Lockheed Martin — the quintessential military innovation company — has taken a 25 year old idea from former UK RAF pilot Jack Walters and turned it into a reality. The planes will be outfitted to each drop up to 900,000 trees in one day and with 2,500 C-130’s sitting unused in 70 different countries, this idea could make for a lot of little saplings. [...]
[...] ground and can expand up to 7 meters in diameter – as they dry the spongy material hardens. Seeds are embedded in the foam polymer that begin to bud once they hit the silt rich flood waters, [...]
Fragrance instead of fragments. Nice.