The Model
The Community
We are designing an educational initiative to empower others to grow food through a smart farming model and to export its way beyond our shores. If you want to learn how to grow food the smart way, subscribe to receive more information.
The Team
The Farm
Cosechas Tierra Viva is the first smart farm in Puerto Rico, producing ecological greens, herbs, vegetables, and fruits in an acre and a half of land. We are implementing accessible technology to the pro-duction of food to develop a sustainable, productive, efficient and profitable farming model. Cosechas Tierra Viva, where ecological practices meets technology.
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Internet of Farming
allows farmers to maximize yields using minimal resources such as water, fertilizer, and seeds. By deploying sensors and mapping fields, farmers can begin to understand their crops at a micro scale, conserve resources, and reduce impacts on the environment. A number of sensing techno-logies are used in precision agriculture, providing data that helps farmers monitor and optimize crops, as well as adapt to changing environmen-tal factors including
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Water Conservation
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is the accumulation and storage of rainwater for reuse on-site, rather than allowing it to run off. Rainwater can be collected from rivers or roofs and redirected to a pit or a tank. Rainwater harvesting is one of the simplest and oldest me-thods of self-supply of water for irrigating crops.
Renewable Energy
is derived from natural processes that are re-plenished constantly. In its various forms, it de-rives directly from the sun, or from heat gene-rated deep within the earth. Included in the definition is electricity and heat generated from solar, wind, ocean, hydropower, biomass, geo-thermal resources, and biofuels and hydrogen derived from renewable resources.
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Biological Intensive
an organic agricultural system that fo- cuses on achieving maximum yields from a minimum area of land, while simulta-neously increasing biodiversity and sus- taining the fertility of the soil. The goal of the method is longterm sustainability on a closed system basis. It is particularly effective for backyard gardeners and smallholder farmers in developing coun- tries, and also has been used successfully on small-scale commercial farms.
