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There is another app to look at "Farmish"

Lots of thoughts:

1) for any farmer to be profitable I think they need to be able to reach the cities.

2) food is highly regulated so the more public you are the more eyes are on you

3) for our area FB is a good way to begin the conversation
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Mark Camper 2y ago

Thanks, those are great points!

I was having in my head two issues (which are probably hard to combine).

A) - There's already plenty of the bigger more business-savy farmers offering shipping for their products; or in person pickups. But their offers are distributed across millions of personal sites.

- I'd like to combine them and all their products in a simple search aggregator; open source & ideally slap some Bitcoin payment options on top

B) - The little ones (who don't want to be on the lists), right in your neighborhood, who might sometimes have extra eggs/produce. I'll rather find those when realizing I need an extra dozen eggs on Monday morning than going to the store, or waiting for the Saturday farmer's market.

- This might be little harder problem to solve in public ways. Private local food clubs/forums might be suitable.

- Little shopstr.store with closed-source membership just for the small community, and temporary one-off products

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MrsNancyJ 2y ago

In my mind, any new solution should be as local as possible. People buy box subscriptions because they don't know there is a farmer 30 miles away from them that have the same, if not better, product to offer.

For the big picture, I believe everything is healthier the closer you are to your food.

If you want to be decentralized you have to be local.

I fully support payment with Bitcoin. Texas Slim of the Beef Initiative offers this.