[rytis]

Just a crazy idea - they say you can do farming from anywhere using their app. So... What about Farming-as-a-Service. You assign users small patches, where they can do whatever they like, and how they like it, and any surviving vegetables are shipped to them. Sounds silly, and is mostly for lolz, may not be sustainable either, but who knows :) ?...

[dhicks6345789]

Here in the UK, allotments are currently back in fashion - garden-sized strips of land assigned to people who rent them for a small amount each year. Currently in demand again, especially in cities where flat-dwellers might not have their own garden - you can spend a few hours a week getting out of the house and getting some exercise / fresh air. A traditional allotment does take a bit of a time commitment, and of course not every day is sunny, and free allotments in some areas are very limited, so maybe combine allotments with a farming robot. Get a parcel of land, maybe a way outside town (but accessible via public transport), split it up into allotments that people can farm daily remotely or come and visit for a nice day out. The sort of thing a farm with a farm shop or pick-your-own operation could diversify into - rent out strips of land for remote users to tinker around on, handle shipping them their ripe produce for a reasonable fee.

[hypertele-Xii]

Yeah I mean they are [supposed to be] testing anyway, might as well rent out the equipment during the experiment and sell the produce.

[rahimiali]

Clever idea. How do I get my harvest once it’s ready? Does someone have to harvest the plants for me and mail them to me?

[schmorptron]

In the video on the site they show a robot arm plucking carrots out of the ground and placing them into a basket, but that might have been from one of the research basket. But shipping them to you sounds reasonable, although packaging them so they don't rot and the distance might nullify any real ecological advantage.

[snypher]

You could probably get a carrot token credit that you could exchange with a more local carrot supplier.