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The document discusses two proposals called the Garden Calculator and Farmville For Real that aim to help people grow their own food. The Garden Calculator would be a tool allowing anyone to design an appropriate garden for their location based on climate data and nutritional needs. Farmville For Real seeks to connect people using the Garden Calculator to real farmers who would grow their garden designs, functioning similarly to a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. The proposals aim to address issues like malnutrition, greenhouse gas emissions from long-distance food transport, and support struggling farmers through guaranteed local food markets.
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- 3. Technology can help people jumpstart food gardens
- 7. Garden Calculator Example with yields and pre-programmed companion planting
- 8. Garden Calculator Example with yield, companion planting, and monthly planting/harvesting schedule
- 11. These people aren’t rural, but maybe they wish they were …
- 12. 63,370,436 people are pretending to farm every month
- 13. What if Farmville really allowed people to design sustainable garden plots?
- 14. This is Farm in Farmville This is a farm outside Bangalore
- 15. Real farm Real farmer Pretend farmer Pretend farm
- 16. “ Farmville For Real” seeks to create an interface and infrastructure that would allow a consumer to utilize the Garden Calculator’s real garden data to plan gunta sized raised bed garden by the best gardening practices and then connect them to a farmer who would grow it
Editor's Notes
- Read this but then point out that garden planning can potentially be an intimidating task for newbie gardeners
- Ok so this isnt realistic but I thought it was funny
- Lets’ look at what a plant needs to grow… It would take a novice gardener quite a bit of time to research this information The information age has provided us data about the specific needs for most plants on earth
- Lets’ look at what a plant needs to grow
- Brief tour of WFG site, Then tour of Gardeners.org planner- a nice tool, all about plant spacing, mostly western crops
- Comapnions, timeline, crop rotation