The MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is pioneering the field of automated farming. These tomatoes were tended to by the ‘robotic farmer’ dubbed as “precision agriculture” by CSAIL, and it is easy to see why. Each plant will receive only the resources it needs and each tomato is harvested as soon as it is ready. The MIT’s research could feature heavily in a self sustenant community, where the robotic and automated nature could vary in both scale and presence. My concern with such a system, is that whilst it could be exemplar in terms of efficiency- the consumer could become detached from the growing process; a process which I am looking to strongly promote and re-establish.