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This robot will grow all the food you need in your backyard. - OmegaLogos - 07-27-2016
Explanation: This is a different kind of recipe ... a recipe for an Open Source robot that will grow your own vegetables etc.
Farmbot Genesis [https://farmbot.io/]
Build your own OR purchase DIY Farmbot kits available from $3900.oo each (+p&h) from the website provided in the link above.
Personal Disclosure: This is amazing technology that allows anyone to have a green thumb and grow their own food with minimal effort.
I for one think it is excellent if but a little costly!
However the produce looks very yummy! :mediumlunchtime:
What do my fellow rogues think about this?
If you had the cash and the land/area to support it would you get one?
Is this the end of gardening as we know it?
RE: This robot will grow all the food you need in your backyard. - BIAD - 07-27-2016
(07-27-2016, 04:08 PM)OmegaLogos Wrote: Is this the end of gardening as we know it?
If it'll dig out all the crap I've hauled away from the garden in the past two weeks, I'd have one!
I smell of undergrowth and if snails have a Christmas party, I will not be invited.
But... I'm tempted!
RE: This robot will grow all the food you need in your backyard. - Mystic Wanderer - 07-27-2016
Wow, that's alright! And I sure could use one of those now that my bones don't want to cooperate to do my own planting.
But... alas, I will have to wait until my rich uncle dies before I can afford one, or else, show this to my husband and let him build me one.
RE: This robot will grow all the food you need in your backyard. - Sol - 07-28-2016
Kinda cool !
Personally, I think it would take away the fun of having a garden from scratch to results out of my hands but it could indeed become helpful once I can't do it anymore or just about.
The price tag is hefty though. Will probably go down as production increases.
Cool !!
RE: This robot will grow all the food you need in your backyard. - Daitengu - 08-03-2016
No thanks ... you can have the mechanical monstrosity .... will stick to gardening the old fashioned way .....
RE: This robot will grow all the food you need in your backyard. - rickymouse - 08-03-2016
That robot would not stand a chance against the chippies and deer. It would be harder to prep for winter than it would save time. A couple of raised planters and two hundred bucks apiece would be a better investment, less of a headache.
Raised planters make it easy to control weeds. Nothing in the video said this was going to pull weeds.