I Spent A Year Growing A Natural Water Bottle - Full Tutorial

Join me as I spend a year growing and making a natural water bottle out of a bottle gourd that I grew from seed. These are also known as Calabash, birdhouse gourd and white flowered gourd. Offset your carbon footprint with me on Wren! - We’ll plant 10 extra trees for the first 100 people that sign up! That’s 1000 extra trees in the world if 100 of you decide to join by using my link - that would be pretty cool :) Bottle gourds (Lagenaria siceraria) can be eaten as a vegetable, much like zucchini / corgette, or left on the plant to mature and dry over several months into a hard, hollow, wooden-like shell. These are one of the worlds first known cultivated plants and have been used for thousands of years for many things, including utensils, containers, bottles, helmets, fishnet floats, and musical instruments. Many people like to make them into birdhouses too. The possibilities are endless and it just takes a bit of creativity to make your own plastic-free items and ute