One Straw Farm looks to Kickstarter to help build agriculture-focused mobile apps

Photo courtesy of One Straw Farm.
Long gone are the days when horse and plow ruled America’s family farms. Today, it’s all about the smartphone apps.
Drew and Joan Norman, owners of One Straw Farm in White Hall, Baltimore County, which sells its crops directly to consumers (including at the Fells Point and Mt. Washington farmers markets, among others), are now running a Kickstarter campaign to help raise funding to build two farm-friendly mobile apps, reports the Baltimore Sun.

The first app the Normans want to build would help them and their 20 workers organize their work on the farm. The app would help their laborers, many of whom speak Spanish as a native language, properly label the produce for customers as individual shares are packed for the pickup locations.
The second app would be for customers to use, and could include pictures and notifications of the veggies they pick up each week, as well as recipes and ways to connect with other community-supported agriculture members. [more]

With just eight days left, the Normans have raised just under $6,000 of the $30,000 they’re seeking. But the Baltimore Sun reports that the Kickstarter campaign has attracted the “attention of more than 10 developers who have offered to build the apps, in some cases for free.”
You can view One Straw Farm’s Kickstarter campaign here.