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Phase: Inspiration Missions: Connecting communities

CropMob

CropMob is an organization that mobilizes urban farmer-activists to raid local farms. Farmers help tend fields, plant, and sow crops.

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CropMob organizes volunteers to assist local farmers in planting, sowing, and tending their fields. It's inspirational in that it mobilizes a group of like-minded citizens to support local farms. This helps serve the community as a whole, as it utilizes free manpower and rewards local growers.

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raid ?

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Photo of Meena Kadri

Good thinking Shruthi – and I wonder if that might incentivise a whole new breed of volunteers? Deal-chasing diggers? ;^)

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This is interesting. Also if the volunteers get a special discount of the farm produce it will also promote buying of local farm produce.

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