Farm from a box

Farm from a box

Vocabulary chunks to learn after watching the video :

• A fully integrated farming unit
• Sustainable crops for food security
• Income generation
• Shipping container
• 2 acre plot of land
• Feed 150 people
• A complete diet every year
• The technology will unfold
• Best practices and technology
• A customized unit
• Renewable energy systems
• Provide power
• Labor saving technologies
• It is engineered to optimize available water resources
• Conserve water
• Boost crop production
• Extend the local growing season
• The community’s living standards will be improved
• Dependent on food aid
• Overcome challenges with self-sufficiency and empowerment

Community Farming Reinvented

Farm from a Box provides communities with the tools required to grow their own food and earn an income. Built from a modified shipping container, each unit contains a complete ecosystem of smart farm technologies to enhance agricultural productivity; from renewable power and micro-drip irrigation, to Information and Communications Technology. Read more HERE

 

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Two men. One boat. The Atlantic Ocean.

[Calume Creasy]

Vocabulary chunks to learn after watching the video :

• There are dangers
• It’s not as bad as people think
• If we are caught in a storm
• If we do get in trouble
• From a family point of view
• Friends or loved ones
• Worst case scenario
• Saying goodbye was pretty pretty tough
• That is the goal we set
• We are in the driving seat
• We’ve signed up for it
• Just over 3.000 miles
• It should take between 50 and 70 days
• Friendship to me is having someone who you can trust massively
• When the sun is going down
• Hear the strokes of the oars
• The feeling of complete freedom and solidarity
• I’m about to row 3.000 miles across The Atlantic

“February 14, 2016 – We made it.”

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