What Da Farm On TV

What Da Farm continues to get lots of attraction to their project.  As many of you know from reading an earlier post here, WDF supplies ready-to-eat veggies which are still growing in pots.  These gardens are ideal for homes and condos, provide a nice atmosphere, and also healthy food with unlimited shelf life.

Here are some more photos of the team on the TV set.

Some More Inspiration in the Last Days of Your Precourse

I thought you would be interested in two projects that I came across recently.  First, in an article from my home city, Seattle, you can learn about another type of project that is encouraging urban agriculture for an interesting target group: inner city kids.  Take a look at:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2015940006_startsproject19m.html

Next...

Recently we had a meeting with a very interesting company in Bangkok which helps companies (and NGO's) with their CSR projects.  The head of the company, K. Daeng, is a very interesting woman who has been in advertising and entertainment industries, but wanted to do something for better business and better life.  She started a company called Siamentis.  I'll try to have her come in and talk to us at IMBA sometime.

She showed me a campaign that her company helped design with Red Bull, for a challenge not unlike your B. 8 Precourse challenge, except that they were encouraging people to become volunteers.  You may have seen some of the TV commercials.  Take a look at one good example at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwE-kezzFr8

Since Siamentis and K. Daeng are especially expert communicators, you can get some inspiration for your presentations from the commercial (linked above, and plenty more at YouTube, if you search for Red Bull Spirit).  Take a lot at how the commercial addresses the same issues that you guys need to address: Who is the target? What is the activity that they want to encourage? How do they encourage people to do it?

Good luck with your final presentations and I'll see you on Sunday.

G7 -- Is this a dead end?

We'd like to challenge orphans to develop an urban farming model supported by the administration at the orphan home to bring about a substantial positive change in their quality of life.

We expect the orphans to come up with an idea that will create 50,000 baht a month which will be added to orphan home budget. So more money willl create substantial positive change to their well beings.

We understood orphan homes usually have budget constraint so we want them to have more money just as they are creating ways to make more money.

So can you help us analyze this? Are we seeing a dead end here? Is our challenge going to solve the problem? And the problem is orphans don't live well because orphan homes don't have a constant flow of money. And our challenge to the orphans is to ask them to do farming so they can live their lives a litter better. Are we treating them like employees (work over time so they can earn more money)? Is the problem big enough or too specific? Or are we just suggesting an idea to make money for any orgainization using urban farming activity? It seems we have a challenge -- driving people in the organization to come up with the farming related ideas to raise money. Is this just one of the solutions to make money?

Your soonest comments will be greatly appreciated

Thanks! :)
Group 7

G7 -- Orphans to urban farming for other orphanages (Are we sane?)

WE are crafting the idea of urban farming around children sphere and we need your help! We welcome your feedback and suggestions.

Are we on the right track? (Is it a challenge or a solution to some challenge)

So we have the idea of using orphans to do urban farming and give the profits/products to other orphanages. We are thinking the challenge like this could solve problem that children do have too much free time and they need a lesson like urban farming to help them manage time better while in returns, orphans are going to feel very good about their doing works for others.

We sincerely appreciate your taking time to provide your comments.

Thanks! :)

Group 7

Who will be our audience ?

Could you please tell us "Who will be our audience ?".

From high impact presentation class, we learned that before we present we should define our audience and goal. Different audiences have different need so it will be useless if what we prepare is not match what they need or they are not our target. So we think we need to know who will be our audience because it will help us to prepare presentation match with their need (such as investor need to know about profit but NGOs need to know about benefit to community).

And another question from our group2.

After we presented idea we found that our idea "easy grow veggie" has product available on market. So we think that we should change our challenge to something like further develop or to promote that product instead of create plant in can. And we will ask the producer of that product to be our partner. Can we change to the way like that?

Actual Urban Farming Challenge in Bangkok

Hi Guys,

I was listening to the radio that day came across this project food for change. It a competition for people in Bangkok to grow their own vegetable here is the link
http://food4change.in.th/index.php/สวนผักในบ้านฉันปี-3-ตอน-ไอเดียบรรเจิดในสวนผักคนเมือง.html . I roughly read through it winner get 5000 baht cash.

Interesting source

1) www.greenthaimarket.com
It is the networking among producer, consumer and also the community who is interested in green product and living sustainability.

2) The magazine named "เกษตรกรรมธรรมชาติ" by Media Center for Development Foundation.(www.pttinternet.pttplc.com/greenglobal/2551/media-03.html)

3) www.brightfarms.com
Brightfarm operates hydroponic rooftop greenhouses at grocery retailer, eliminating time, diatance, and cost from supply chain. Check out the VDO here, it will explain more how its turnkey solution works.

For group 8, this is the similar case you mentioned about rooftop on 7-11.

4) www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfVfq3IUIGM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF44p7FG2AQ
It is called Science Barge, the urban farming with innovation and technology helping planting effectively the most.

For group 8, planting on boat is cool idea, but find the suitable way and possibilty in our own way.