It’s Farm Week on Cool Weird Awesome
We’re replaying some of our favorite agricultural episodes this week.
For Crops In The Desert, Try These Inflatable Container Farms
AirFarm is an inflatable container farm that could help people grow crops where there’s not a lot of water. The idea - pun intended- blew up at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Farming Robots Are Weeding The Fields With Lasers
If you have fields, you almost certainly have weeds. Pulling them can take a lot of time or money, but farmers now have a new way to make that part of the job a lot easier: a weed-zapping robot that uses lasers.
There’s A Farm In The Middle Of A British Highway
Stott Hall Farm is an unusual place; on either side of the place, there's the UK's M62 highway. We'll explain how it happened.
Robots And Soap Bubbles Might Help Pollinate Crops
Bees are running into a lot of challenges lately, and while there are efforts to help the bees get their buzz back, scientists are testing out systems that might give us other ways to pollinate.
Getting All Our Robot Ducks In A Row
In Japan, there's a little white robot swimming through rice fields, imitating a duck! It's actually helping to grow the rice by aerating the water and stopping weeds from growing.