WHAT ARE WE DOING? WHY ARE WE DOING IT?
Digital AgSolutions: From Cloud, to Crowd, to Crop, to Corner. Leveraging information communication technology (ICTs), and open-source, to extend incentives and consulting that will get people growing food locally, in unused spaces.
We are connecting the dots between citizen, farmer, innovator, programmer, and inviting all stakeholders to conveniently and easily get the resources they via vetted experts in the AgSphere. We offer access to space, education, technology, and support to start a farm, turn empty space into extra crops and cash, open an AgLab to recruit new agripreneurs, code for crops, and volunteer on local projects.
Using AgTech, we can grow anytime, anywhere, using less resources like time, energy, space, water. And this is crucial to commit to because:
- Climate change wiping out farm land,
- Depletion of nutrient rich soil,
- 70% of the population of 9 Billion living in cities by 2050,
- No urban access to sustainable local agriculture,
- 1/3 of the population starving to death even though we produce enough food to feed 10B people RIGHT NOW.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
We have three great reward levels located to the list on the right. Want to see the SDG #2 ZERO HUNGER achieved? Become an extraordinary, hero, or legendary member of our farm-to-fork community. You will also receive several perks such as free life-time membership, a plantable certificate that grows and a redeemable code for products, services, and support.
Your contribution goes to helping local agripreneurs create their own educational AgLabs, farms, and more food for the community. It also supports our CODE FOR CROPS challenges, where software is being developed in collaboration with our volunteers to create better access and connection for agripreneurs, and our network.
FROM SEED TO SKY: OUR STORY
When we didn't have enough money to buy food we grew it. But why in a world, where we produce enough food to feed 10B, do 1/3 go hungry and 1/3 are overweight? Almost 1/3 is lost or wasted, or given to livestock. The UN decided to tackle this challenge by declaring in 2001 in the Millennium Sustainable Development Goals that we had the technology and resources to end hunger. A greater focus on farming was on the rise. Then in 2015 the Sustainable Development Goals decided we had reached the moment where by 2030 we would reach Zero Hunger. Additionally, plant-based diets are being recommended by health professionals around the world as a way for us to sustain ourselves as a whole population. And ever since we have been teaching and talking to anyone who wanted to know more about agriculture.
WE ARE HUNGRY FOR CHANGE. After working with a CEO of a $4B Fortune 500 company for a year, our founder decided it was time to take matters into his own hands and launch an agriculture movement. Getting back to his sustainable roots, the founder pursued a vision that was ahead of its time but is finally now in fashion. But this came with challenges as the AgTech and Smart Farming market was unknown and has just reached its tipping point in 2018. Vertical growing, and growing in soilless mediums in any location, at anytime, would be the way we could grow food on every corner, but required better incentives for regular citizens to become stakeholders in the food production, distribution and consumption.
HERE WE GROW. It once was said,”let thy food be thy medicine.” And rightfully so. It not only provides us energy, but catapults entire civilisations and controls populations. Historically, the agrarian age brought about writing, money, roads, laws, and society as we know it. Food is such an intrinsic part of survival so the people who owned the food became kings, but then resources of the many began to flow to the few. And its been that way ever since. It’s time to democratise, empathise and re-civilise through food distribution, and disruption.
The challenge: Zero Hunger through local, sustainable food production, distribution and consumption.
The opportunity: A $15B market, 60% increase in food production to feed a growing population, most which are living in urban areas with no access to local food, and 80% of agriculture pursuing SMART upgrades in farming.
OUR TEAM
Sky Sheridan, Founding Farmer, Chief Innovations Officer
"From the margins of society, I’ve always observed a different perspective. Adaptability and resourcefulness were the backbone of my against-all-odds survival. When it comes to designing solutions, I always reach for the sky."
Michal Rutkowski, Co-Partner, Chief of Jack of all Trades
"Mastering many disciplines at once takes a certain kind of multi-dimensional madness, and getting along with people from different walks of life. I am the man with many hats, musician, linguist, master of sustainability, Erasmus leader, community activist, entrepreneur...each one done with all my passion and purpose."
Johan Malmström, Co-Partner, Chief of Jokes, Cables and Screens"Passionate about computers, novice about agriculture. But I'm a green, mean, fighting machine. I never give up. I am always looking for a way to disrupt old system and develop replacements with upgraded designs. Not afraid to get my hands dirty, works hard, and loves being part of community."