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Urban Hydro Farms
Hi,
Sorry for the long post, and my first one here at that. I'm involved in the early stages of an emerging nonprofit organization that executes humanitarian projects which are staffed and funded on a per-project basis. All this means is that we take on projects, evaluate them, gather the needed experts, raise any needed funds/resources, set a timeline, and execute. We do it this way so that when you donate time/money/resources, you know that 100% will go directly to the completion of the project to which you intended to contribute - not to a nebulous organization that promises to work on the problem. The name of the game is transparency and public participation (aka crowdsourcing). That part has nothing to do with hydroponics, but it lets you know where I'm coming from. Our normal project model is to design a solution, build a prototype, make sure the community we're serving has the needed resources to build/maintain the solution on their own without additional barriers/burdens (i.e. we don't trade one problem for another). Then, we give the solution away to the world by putting all intellectual property (designs, business plans, research, etc.) into the public domain. One of our activities is to evaluate various loose project concepts to sort out which ones have merit and are viable, and which ones are not so viable or beneficial. I am involved in assessing our first official project as a formal organization. We are interested in the issue of domestic food deserts, with an initial focus on domestic regions caused by inner city and some American Indian reservations food distribution problems. We are investigating whether we can:
The aim is to use free spaces and make heavy use of recycled/reused materials (where safe). The system should require minimal training and be tolerant of occasional neglect. The goal is to produce a combination of year-round staple fruits and vegetables for local consumption and possibly dedicate something like 25% of the resources at each location to growing out-of-season produce for high-markup sales (possibly to restaurants?). The surplus crop is intended to fund the maintenance of the facility and at least subsidize the cost of the staple produce. We know that we are not the first to approach this sort of project. I personally, however, have only limited hobby experience with hydroponics. So, here are my questions:
But, all of those "thinks" are just assumptions right now, and I'm just wanting to reach out to the community and get some feedback. |
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My only input would be to research barrelponics. There are several websites, youtube videos and even classes to take. From what I understand the inventor was looking to solve most of your issues. Good Luck!
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