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Amazing! It would be awesome if people living far from traditional agricultural areas could access fresh greens without insane transportation costs (both financ

Amazing! It would be awesome if people living far from traditional agricultural areas could access fresh greens without insane transportation costs (both financial and environmental). Are your farming systems fully automated? If so, has that been more of a software challenge, or more of a mechatronics challenge?

davehcker 7y ago
>It would be awesome if people living far from traditional agricultural areas could access fresh greens without insane transportation costs (both financial and environmental) That's what actually got me started. A head of lettuce on average 1200 miles (https://ucanr.edu/datastoreFiles/608-319.pdf https://ucanr.edu/datastoreFiles/608-319.pdf) and it is so disconnected from the site of consumption. My vision is to have distributed farms (as opposed to conventional wisdom, i have found that smaller indoor farms will be more profitable) every eight blocks or so. Not really- It's quite manual (as of now). I had to change my country almost three times since I started; so I'm rather focussing more on data, and training algorithms part to figure out the right parameters (and the farm is a just a testbed). One example would be to have a $5 camera for measuring growth than buying a $100 3D what not camera.