Place carefully chosen plants inside a bottle with some soil and sand and gravel. Add water and seal the cap. With luck, and carefully regulated sunlight, your bottle-garden may thrive.
Some sealed bottle-gardens survive for decades, with condensation substituting for rain, and dead plant matter, fertiliser. This is a very simple form and example of a “closed system”.
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