Just imagine all the packaging material that would be required to get everyone a new farm bot every few years.

I am, it's not very much, and compared with the packaging for food in every market, it's just a rounding error.

The thing about growing food locally, is that you don't need individually package your apples in plastic. You just harvest it, then eat it, in it's healthiest possible form, while also not doing insane polluting.

you know good sites / books about this ? or active groups

Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN, regardless of how provocative another comment is or you feel it is.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Your comment would be fine without the first (and I would also say the last) sentence.