My Farm is an ambitious project that has been announced by the National Trust within the last week (this blog post was ready on the day but has been sitting in draft for a while), and has been getting quite a lot of press and media coverage. It extends the idea of virtual farming with very popular online games like Farmville (which has tens of millions of players) to an actual farm , part of the Wimpole Hall estate near Cambridge. I have been to the farm myself some years ago when my kids were much smaller... The website provides some background detail as to how the scheme is going to work. The National Trust are looking for 10 000 people to invest £30 in the scheme, which will allow them to take some decisions relating to the farm. They will vote on a range of issues relating to the management of the farm, although given its organic status and location, there are obviously going to be limits as to what those decisions might be... I am tempted to go for it, and may well do so...
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