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There aren’t too many opportunities to explore a farm that grows sponges, and you’ll get to see exactly how luffas are grown in greenhouses and harvested from gourds on heirloom vines.

Even in some more personal videos, objects come to stand in for time slots: a luffa representing a shower, a hand on an eyelash curler symbolizing a makeup routine.

The luffa or loofah plant has large, single flowers, golden yellow and about three inches across.

In the months that followed, he reminded them not to rake their lawns, urged them to leash their cats outdoors and suggested they try growing luffa and pawpaws.

The New York design firm The Living has constructed a tall, cylinder-shaped room made of luffa — yes, the sponge — to showcase what the organization’s founder, David Benjamin, described as “probiotic architecture.”