That is a lot of determination; kudos to her!
I was wondering about how much people use sites like LocalHarvest, LocalHens, Barn2Door, ...
I can't see any truly public and open source databases like that. I think it would be great to build an aggregator on nostr, but also can't figure myself how to make it sustainable (someone has to keep updating the quality of the listings in the db) without making it closed source.
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- Any thoughts on this?
- Is the discovery a big problem for folks i your area?
- Do small farms / homesteads actually want to be in searchable public databases like this?
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
Do you feel the same about weed farmers
Not sure i understand the question. Can you be more specific?
Should weed farmers be granted the same freedoms of advertising carefree
Should weed be legal? TBH I have never smoked weed, but I do belive there are health benefits to CBD/cannabis/etc. So I am not completely opposed to its use.
As far as I know it is legal in most states.
Weed is legal. But should weed farmers be treated the same as regular farmers or different? Whats the difference between?
Ok, got it. I don't see a difference between the two. You are a producer whether it is weed or lettuce.
What is interesting is that it is probably easier to buy weed than it is to buy raw milk.
In my state raw milk has to be labeled "for pet consumption" and you have to apply for a license in order to sell it.
Both have a stigma attached to it.
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
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.
