What are you selling?

A lot of people ask "Who are you and what are you selling?"

It started when our dad (we're in high school) bought an EarthBox® planter. We read in the sales materials that the United Nations was using Earthbox® planters to teach people in developing nations an excellent way to grow food. This sounded like a great project, but we thought it would make more sense using locally sourced free or low cost recycled materials. That's what got us started.
Also, watering Global Buckets by hand become a BIG pain everyday so we explored ideas on how to automate the watering job using atmospheric pressure. Our system works great! This entire summer we only spent about 20 minutes dealing with water. Previously, we spent about 10 minutes a day. Using some engineering and physics to create wonderful efficiencies was the most rewarding part of the project.

What's next? Our eyes were opened when Curt Lindley, a Peace Corp worker in Mandeville, Jamaica, wrote to us and pondered if an alternative design could be created which didn't use 5-gallon buckets. Why? Curt wrote that 5- gallon buckets are so valued by the people of Mandereville that they would be very hesitant to put holes in the buckets. So, now our energy is directed at creating an alternative system using totally valueless materials. Whoops! Now we'll have to change the name to "Global Worthless Materials". Stay tuned.

Grant & Max