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英国一家农场,近日将自己农场里的农作物、牲畜都放在了网站在线订购。 这个名为 MyFarm 的网站上,你可以看到该农场的实时摄像头视频,也可以直接预定门票亲自上门视察。 这个项目就好像是Facebook 中的 Farmville/虚拟农场游戏一样。你可以订购某一块地里的作物,或者某个牲口。等他们收获的时候就直接运送到你家啦。
via BBC
Farmer Richard Morris says some 10,000 virtual farmers can vote
A National Trust farm is to be run by online subscribers voting on which crops to grow and livestock to rear.For a £30 annual fee, 10,000 farm followers will help manage Wimpole Home Farm, in Cambridgeshire.The National Trust says its MyFarm project aims to reconnect people with where their food comes from.It was partly inspired by the online Facebook game Farmville and follows the example of Ebbsfleet Football Club which is run on a similar basis.Decisions about the running of the team in Kent has been in the hands of MyFootballClub subscribers since 2008.Monthly decisionsWimpole Home Farm, which is converting to organic, is currently commercially self-sustaining.The 1,200 acre site is home to rare breeds of sheep, cattle, poultry, horses and goats and produces meat, eggs, wheat and oil seed rape.Continue reading the main story“Start QuoteBy influencing the work at Wimpole, our farmers will start to understand the effects and implications of their own decisions”
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