The Bucky Box Startup Story | The Bucky Box Blog. I got involved last winter kickstarting a high profile vegetable box scheme with some friends for the Auckland region. What’s a vege box scheme I hear you ask? Well I’m glad you asked, it’s a service that offers box of local vegetables, usually organic, delivered to your door. Now that’s all good and that, but what I didn’t expect to see quite so clearly was the reason why we mostly have mega farms and chemical food on the table. Let me bring up Neil who I met along the way. You see it’s just simple arithmetic for a supermarket… dealing with one farm is cheaper than administrating and co-ordinating supply from 20 farms. When Jim the Dirt Doctor came to speak to us I was impressed.
“Out of a ton of phosphate fertiliser dropped on crops only 5kg is absorbed by crops. A month later on while on a roadtrip through the South Island, I took some snaps of my old stomping grounds, they were pristine when I left them 20 years ago. It occurred to me to solve this problem is not that hard… OT. Sustainable Living Lab | RETHINKING THE WAY WE MAKE. Openly Disruptive | Innovating in the space where technology, culture, and livelihoods meet.