On Empathy_ Field Study with Small Farmers (Rod Olson, Leaf and Lyre audio recording [unedited]) https://drive.google.com/open?id=10rH58YGNdMoSt7CsPqgT2oFcyCWgnqCl
Day 2, Reflective Statement
Tuesday, August 28, 2018 Theme: Empathy Today was a funny day. It feels like we’ve been working on this for months, but it’s only day two. I also wasn’t pumped with as much adrenaline (I think I used it all for day 1) so the day seemed longer. Although it was a long […]
Day 2 Failure Log
We went on a tangent about bats and white nose syndrome… I didn’t fully listen to the podcast for homework I didn’t get a full nights sleep, which left me a little drained today. We also went on a tangent about religion As they day went on, as hard as I tried, I still tried […]
List of 10 (12) Questions to Answer
What qualifies as a small farm? How do you make precision agriculture or big data accessible and affordable? How do we integrate our innovation globally? How do we encourage large corporations to share their data? How do we seamlessly integrate this without stepping on toes? How do we convince traditionalists? (should we?) What kind of […]
Day 1, Reflective Statement
Monday, August 27, 2018 Theme: Problem Identification e-Crop.91 (Code name: Raindrop) Small experiments with radical intent. This is the goal of the course. When you read it it makes perfect sense, however, as soon as I turn to look at the problems we are faced with, I completely lose track of this. This is […]
Map of the Challenge, Help Small Farms Grow
Day 1 Failure Log
I was already trying to come up with solutions… We tried to pick a problem, before really thinking it through I overthought a lot. We struggled with the simple task of a team name I was fairly indecisive There were a few too many rabbit holes I chased a lot of seagulls.
Where do we go From Here?
Change has to start somewhere. In France it is federal law that grocery stores have to donate edible food items that would otherwise be considered waste to organizations who will redistribute it. In Quebec, they have implemented the supermarket recovery program, promoting the donation of edible food items to organizations (i.e the Food Banks) from […]
Final Presentations
This semesters presentations were really interesting, with continued and new innovations from last semester. I think because of the added challenge of contacting stakeholders most people chose to focus their projects locally. A lot of the presentations focused on food banks, but all these groups seemed to focus on it from a different angle. Student […]
How far we’ve come
Last semester I worked with the same group and we did our presentation on Food Waste from Seed to Plate, looking at all aspects of food waste. This semester however, we decided to narrow our focus solely on the legislation and law aspect of food waste. At first we were looking into Criminalizing food waste […]