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It all started with shipping containers. Brandi DeCarli and Scott Thompson were working in Kisumu, Kenya on a youth center meant to provide basic resources like education, health and sport. It was to be built from shipping containers, set around a soccer field, but after some transparency issues with that nonprofit, DeCarli and Thompson decided they needed to follow a different idea, based on a company within their control. In the process, they'd noticed that access to food was still an issue, with a lack of the infrastructure needed for reliable crop production, especially in drought conditions.
"There's a bit of a missing infrastructure that occurs in a lot of underdeveloped areas, and even here within the U.S," says DeCarli. "So we thought, let's provide communities with the tools they need to be able to grow and sustain their own crop so that the resilience is actually built up from the ground itself."
Business partners who have worked in international development and nonprofits, they stuffed a whole two-acre farm capable of feeding 150 people into a shipping container, partnered with irrigation and solar companies, and founded Farm From a Box. I sat down with DeCarli in San Francisco, where the for-profit benefit corporation is based, to hear about the $50,000 kit, what makes it special, and how it could be useful to governments, NGOs, schools, and even individuals who want to start a farm.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Wednesday January 04 2017, @07:41PM
The very first thing you need for a two-acre farm is two acres of land. I'm pretty sure that's not found in the container. ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by ikanreed on Wednesday January 04 2017, @07:48PM
Nah, you just stack the land vertically.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 04 2017, @07:52PM
The marvel of dehydration, just add water! *FWWOOOSH* insta-farm.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 04 2017, @07:54PM
Yes it's just like saying you can live like a billionaire musky playboy if you buy a bottle of musk. Then all you need is a billion dollars.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 04 2017, @09:43PM
You'll smell the same, won't you? This container comes with a "full IOT system" meaning (to put it politely) a load of steer manure. That's all you need to smell like a farmer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 05 2017, @12:07AM
Only in a completely consumer-mindset society could this be considered something special.
Buy a farm today! Now YOU can be a farmer, just buy this.
See! Now your a farmer!