#farmstr 🔥🔥🔥
I looked into it. Guess what?!
- There's a lady in Nashville who launched a Farmstr company a decade ago.
In mission of empowering the local self sovereign commerce. Open to sustainable ag farmers only.
Now she's pivoted to a new company, Barn2Door, which is essentially following the same mission. Vertically integrated e-commerce & PoS for small farmers.
I'm trying to Orange&Purple pill her, but maybe #Nashville crew can help here.
Integrating LN payments, and (nostr) storefronts aggregator should be pretty doable with the infrastructure they already have. Cheap gain for the market growth. Mission alignment pretty close.
PS. I'm just still little blind of any feedback from the farmers about the company, their services, fiat vs sound ethos.
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if anyone knows the folks or someone at Barn2Door I'd love to talk to them.
Lot of folks around here have used the platform but based on what I know about it is really just for individual selling, not a full marketplace for an entire community.
We're looking to build out or partner with a SaaS company (right now looking at FarmShare) to have a local marketplace for all sized producers and then utilizing our own background in logistics/ops to help with delivery through a compost program.
following this topic for any insights/connects!
Been trying to figure out how to make a Jekyll blog with 0 coding experience and am just about to rage-quit. Is there anything out there for us non-coders that is NOT Wix/SS etc for simple blogging??
#help #asknostr #blog #coding #jekyll
haha absolutely understand! very cool. perhaps if y'all ever come through CO you can stop by and visit us and share your art in person :)
love that.
complexity = stabilization. but complexity DOES NOT mean complicated!
amazing!! we also deal with very dry soil here too in CO. We've planted close to 10k trees in swale systems and do rotational grazing through the alleys to start bringing back moisture into the soil. Mimicking the patterns of the buffalo from the original Indigenous land stewards.
Would love to see your art! Just as important :)
That's a very good call on the treasury part. Looking forward to hearing your updates as y'all progress!
Farming is hard af. And trying ro run a profitable business while not being extractive from the land (and yourself) is even harder.
We've been learning over the last three years that diversifying our activities allows the farm to stay financially stable - farming for production, animals, events, rental spaces for tenants and businesses, education, and a marketplace.
Yellow Barn has kind of become a small business incubator. If all the businesses can leverage a shared space, a wide pool of people and skills, mentorship, AND we can all just pay each other, then you're really creating some efficiency and keeping money in a closed-loop system.
My favorite permaculture principle is "stacking functions" (i.e having the compost pickup route a lso be a food delivery route AND having the food waste be pig food, etc). So the metric we most value is "how many times can we get a dollar (soon to be sats) to circulate through the ecosystem before it has to exit?"
#yellowbarn #farmstr #foodstr #bizdev #circularity #pigstr #nature #Bitcoin #community #regenag #regeneconomics #newworld #agroforestry #permaculture
that's great. I'm working on figuring out the same for our farm in Colorado. We have a little farm stand where we'll start taking BTC. Since it's all membership based, we are planning to offer letting people pay the membership fee in USD and convert it to BTC and give them the same amount as a credit to use in store so they get familiar with it.
How'd you guys find or get the local seed and feed onto Bitcoin? Did you help them or were they already on it?
Alright I feel like this is the place I get to geek out on geometry for real.
I'm sure this crowd in particular has seen images of geometry in Nature. The Fibonacci sequence is a regular occurance as the basic building blocks of life.
So I got curious. What about people?
And I started analyzing how people coalesce into pairs, pods, teams, and even movements. And I think I see I pattern....
#geometry #people #community #farmstr #nature #Bitcoin #patterns #business #tobecontinued
oh that's a good point, never thought we'd need that! I will set that up!
hell yes!! awesome thanks for sharing!
That is epic!! Thanks for the info!
feel free to reach out if y'all have questions on anything!
major thing is how do you get folks to exchange USD for BTC quickly and be able to make payments? Can Strike do that?
Actually, this is a major point we have been focusing on. Because the pigs and plants are offering their "services of soil remediation", the way we have begun to structure things is that folks are actually paying for their services instead of buying "products" (words are key here - commodifying living matter is a major reason we're so disconnected from our food and land). And you can't tax services.
So in essence, you're paying for the service of the land steward to remediate and care for soil health through use of plants and animals, and getting a portion of the dividends from that service through meat and veg. And the delivery is our service we provide through our company called the Stalk Market :)
Loops on loops on loops.
stoked to get connected! we're gonna be rolling out Bitcoin implementation over this year as I myself get more familiar with it
