Yes, Capi pots are for your green friends, but Capi is also busy making their business greener. Besides using LED lights in the factory and solar panels on the roof (soon), they also try to ‘close the circle’ when it comes to producing a pot. Eventually, they want to produce biobased planters only! I like that kind of vision, don’t you?
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Capi festival
December 11, 2019
Capi festival
What to expect from a “Capi influencers festival”? If you don’t know what Capi is, I’d better start with that: it’s a Dutch company designing lightweight, isolated pots which can be used both indoors and outdoors. And sometimes, they organise a fun day for planty IG-people! So, what does a Capi festival look like? I’ll show you.
Presentation: going ‘greener’
Factory tour
A large storage hall is unfortunately all that I can show you from the factory itself. We were not allowed to photograph the high tech machines due to the risks of copycats stealing their special way of making these insulated pots. If you have a large Capi pot at home: ever wondered why the inside is so orange? That’s the insulating layer, protecting the roots of your plant or tree against excessive heat and frost. There’s a special technique to get that 2nd layer into the pot, and because it’s all Dutch, that layer is painted orange, obviously! 😀
Workshops
I participated in 3 different workshops:
Painting a plate
I would’ve never come up with this myself, especially since what’s in my head never comes out of my hands (that’s why I stick to improv theatre: it dóes come out of my mouth ;-)). However, after a short lesson from Martine (@studiosuikerzoet) I believe I did a pretty good job:
Taking cuttings
Though already familiar with a lot of ways to take cuttings, I did learn something new: when taking a cutting from a woody plant like lavender, you need to make sure you also rip off a piece of the stem. It’s called a “heel cutting”. Judith (@hetgroenlab) showed us everything and then we could take cuttings of our own. Here’s the result:
Photography
Unfortunately my phone does not support all the possible features in Lightroom, but I got some tips from @muk.vl anyway!
Unfortunately my phone does not support all the possible features in Lightroom, but I got some tips from @muk.vl anyway!
Meeting insta-friends
It’s so cool to meet IG-peeps in real life! So here they are:
Conclusion
I had a fun day and learned some things about Capi that I really like which makes me more inclined to recommend them to a fellow plant friend. I realise that’s what it’s all about, but I want to stress out that this blog represents my own viewpoint and Capi did not ask for any exposure at all.
Last but not least
Did you notice the photo above this blog post? Those are cupcakes in Capi pots! And every so often, Capi posts videos like this 😀
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