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This Brilliant Japanese Labor-Saving Device Makes Farming WAY Easier

This is the best of what good industrial design has to offer. The Paperpot Transplanter, a Japanese invention for farmers, lets one person do in minutes what ordinarily takes an hour:

Transplanting with the Paperpot Transplanter from Permaculture Voices on Vimeo.

As cool as that tool is, what’s even more impressive is how the designers thought through the loading process. This is a great example of harnessing the properties of materials–in this case, paper and Plexiglass–and shaping them in such a way as to make what would be a tedious task into something precise and easy:

Starting Seeds from Permaculture Voices on Vimeo.

This thing makes me want to farm. I want to sit in a shed and load that thing up over and over.

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