Indoor farming
Resources, thoughts, ideas for building a personalized, automated, inexpensive indoor farm.
Controlled environment farming (CEA)
Indoor farming
Messaging—processes, crowd control signage, branding, verbal announcements—must be concise (to the point), clear (transparent, able to be understood), and consistent (from one time to another to another to …)
Allow for standardized customization
So here’s the formula, if you can call it that:
- Find a real problem (not a hypothetical one)
- Make the solution emotionally resonant (not just functional)
- Time it right (not too early, not too late)
- Communicate the why (not just the what)
- Focus on existing needs (not invented ones)
- Win decisively on what matters most (not marginally on everything)
- Remove
How to Make Something People Give a Shit About
Could something be grown for big fragrance markets (Paris)?
Utilize AI to fine tune variables…
Temp (consistency)
Humidity (consistency)
Nutrients (qty, time between doses, location of application, medium of application [solid, dissolved in water, etc])
Water (qty, time between doses, location of application)
Light (qty, spectrums, time between doses, angles)
…to get better results
“mmm”-ness
Taste
Texture
Color
Consi
How to make a bioregenerative CEA strawberry farm?
What needs to happen to make the farm bioregenerative? Major systems must all be cyclous/cyclical:
Nutrients
Water
Atmospheric content/makeup
Light/energy
Could the lights be spread out in a hoophouse-like formation, to allow leaves to the side and underneath to get light too?
We have the power to adapt to change, and we have the power to give form to our future
-Bjarke Ingels
from TED Talk
Ordinary, useful things can also be beautiful.
-The Modern World