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This something I've been curious about for a while now. I don't have a lot of experience, but I've worked on a farm and with a research team looking at agricult
by scroy 12y ago
This something I've been curious about for a while now. I don't have a lot of experience, but I've worked on a farm and with a research team looking at agricultural water management. It seems like there is a lot of potential in distributed small-scale farming, and later, small-scale automation. I just don't know what would be the most viable route to get into the business of... I guess I'd call it small-scale decentralized farming? But these kinds of ideas are getting me thinking about it again.
I'd guess the greatest interest comes from educated young Western homeowners. But I would rather dream of it breaking into the mainstream and becoming the new pattern of food production. I want to do the math and find out if it's a feasible future, because I suspect it will be, but the question is when. But I'm not sure where to start, or if the data to answer that even exists yet.
- codingdave 12y agoThe first step is probably gathering a group of like-minded folk and just starting to work the ideas, do the research, crunch the numbers, etc. I don't know what the best product to start with would be, but I'd certainly be up for at least getting some discussion going. These kinds of ideas are one of the few things that would get me to leave my cushy stable coding job and go back to the startup world.