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# Greenhouse by Joost
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/greenhouse-by-joost/
- Published: 2012-03-21T09:38:04.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-28T11:02:47.000Z
- Description: Australian designer, tulip farmer, restaurateur and ideas-man Joost Bakker is known for his uncompromisingly sustainable vision - but his latest endeavour goes a step further.
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, Food & Drink, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:15, #author-change-2025-05-28

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Australian designer, tulip farmer, restaurateur and ideas-man [Joost Bakker](http://byjoost.com/?ref=protein.xyz) is known for his uncompromisingly sustainable vision - but his latest endeavour goes a step further.

As part of the recent [Melbourne Food & Wine Festival](http://www.melbournefoodandwine.com.au/?ref=protein.xyz), Joost constructed a temporary version of his [Greenhouse](http://www.greenhouseperth.com/?ref=protein.xyz) restaurant with all the sustainable features of the full-time offering (there's one in Perth). A rooftop garden, recycled water system, pure beeswax lighting, recycled furniture, [house-milled flour](http://byjoost.com/2012/03/why-we-mill-our-own-flour/?ref=protein.xyz) and plantation timber cutlery are just a few [attributes](http://www.greenhouseperth.com/food/greenhouse/the-features-facts-and-figures/?ref=protein.xyz) of the considered design, which utilises everything possible to minimise waste.

And we mean everything. The temporary Greenhouse toilets have been custom-built with a 'urine harvesting' facility. Once captured, customer urine is transported to a local mustard seed farm and sown into a crop. It's then harvested and refined into oil to be used in future Greenhouse restaurants. Joost reckons we're mad to be pissing this stuff away. Twenty-five people can fertilise an entire hectare of mustard seed, and Greenhouse hopes to harvest enough urine to produce 50,000 litres of oil.

This uncompromising experience puts sustainable practice front-of-mind for consumers, educating them about the wider effects of their habits and encouraging an environmental mindfulness that lasts long after the meal is over.

Greenhouse exterior images by [Earl Carter](http://earlcarter.com.au/?ref=protein.xyz).

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