Fuente: WIPO "tomato" A self-contained underground growing apparatus (500) including a container (502) configured to be positioned underground, an opening into the apparatus configured to allow human access from a surface of the ground and including a releasable hatch (514), a fluid container (714) configured to contain an aqueous solution, multiple internal containers (530) configured to enable growing of at least one of aquatic animal life, plants, or fungi and configured to enable the aqueous solution to flow therethrough, a rebreather system, a heat transfer system (760), and a computerized control device (722).