Bucky Box: Feeding the World Locally-Grown Food

If you’re an independent farmer selling directly to consumers, you probably spent a lot of your workweek consumed by administrative work. In an era when more and more people are buying local, admin work can overwhelm day-to-day farming operations, which is where Bucky Box comes in.

Founded by Will Lau in late 2011, Bucky Box’s goal is to make organic, local farming a more viable and economically sensible option than industrial farming. What began as a separate project, Ooooby Box, needed something to coordinate the many, many different subscribers; Bucky Box was designed to handle any number of subscribers quickly and easily. Not only can the service take care of local business, it is scalable to a worldwide level. It saves, on average, a fully day of administrative work a week. And much of Bucky Box’s profits are reinvested into organic farming projects and research, food awareness and education.

Bucky Box makes billing and delivery logistics a snap. Using the program, farmers can even forecast changes for its customers and billing to help to avoid cash crunches. It charges per delivery only, and although the service is still in its beta phase its users are already singing its praises. In creating Bucky Box, Lau wanted to level the playing field between local, independent farmers and their industrial cousins, as well as decrease the harmful effect widespread industrial farming and fertilizing can have.

The current food systems too often shut out smaller farms since it is simpler for merchants to deal with a single farm, industrial farming can flourish. Bucky Box gives smaller farmers the tools industrial farmers already use; that way they can create new, local food systems. Thanks to Lau and his small team at Bucky Box, local farmers are empowered to broaden their reach, increase their profits, and change the world.