With pixel farms, a homeowner can order salad on Friday and the harvesting robot will collect the produce and deliver it to the outdoor refrigerator right from the backyard. The homeowner can order a lot of salad if he is expecting a party. The excess produce is shipped off into a pooled distribution that sells the produce or distributes it to a food desert community. Even this latter option can have fiscal implications as they can potentially be used as tax write-offs.
What Does it Mean?
When surrounded by crops and robots, it would be advisable to have a metal house. Fire would spread more readily, but a metal house with a regulating system would provide a measure to preserve the residence. A case study would be the recent fire in Hawaii and the sole metal roof “miracle” house that survived in Lahaina.
There would be chicken coops on site or delivered via robots to have closed loop land management so that fertilizer use can be avoided. Outdoor refrigerators to store robot deliveries will also be an implication of such a new environment.