Indoor farming

Resources, thoughts, ideas for building a personalized, automated, inexpensive indoor farm.

Controlled environment farming (CEA)

Briggs Uhler

Materiom

materiom.org

Sometimes a single pro can outweigh multiple cons, and vice versa

Adapted from Tim Ferriss podcast episode with Bob Iger

Sol had a saying: “You train an animal, you teach a person.” He wanted people who could assess situations and make the right call, not robots following scripts. Jim Sinegal took this to heart – he spent 90% of his time teaching, not managing. Manuals create followers. Teaching creates thinkers.

Robert E. Price (source book author) • [Outliers] Sol Price: The Godfather of Costco, Walmart, and Modern Retail

AmplifiedAg® - Accelerate, Optimize, and Scale CEA Operations

amplifiedaginc.com

Farm in a shipping container

Frustration motivates innovation

Three Innovation Lessons from James Dyson

Adapted from James Dyson

Home 2025 | ASCE's 2025 Infrastructure Report Card

infrastructurereportcard.org

Tony Fadell: The first secret of design is ... noticing

ted.com

Think with a young mind—see the invisible, pesky little problems

It’s not always “get more to do more”, sometimes it’s “get more to do less”. Subtract.

What America eats is handsomely packaged; it is usually clean and pure; it is excellently preserved. The only trouble with it is this: year by year it grows less good to eat. It appeals increasingly to the eye. But who eats with his eyes? Almost everything used to taste better when I was a kid.

Science Has Spoiled My Supper

Nobody eats with their eyes. Poorer food is an invisible, widespread problem (see Tony Fadell cards)