Bitcoins - Liberating organic farmers

My name is Santiago, I'm from Tierra Buena, a small business that sells organic products, vegetables, chicken, canned, made ​​by small family farmers, agroecological farmers and some are not so small, associations... I've known Santiago for a few years now, we became friends when I rented an apartment from him. And a few months ago he told me that he was working on his business for selling organic vegetables in the ​​Buenos Aires area, and he not only sold his produced but other people's products. In my opinion, agriculture serve for people to live. Santiago told me that he wanted to expand his customer base, he wanted to expand his business, and he didn't know how, and since he knew that I was in tech maybe I was able to help. For Tierra Buena, accepting payments online through PayPal or credit card was a problem. Because they need the funds right away to pay for their operations, and the fees are very expensive for what they can pay. Also, they are not very good at dealing with bureaucracy, so they needed someone to do that for them. So I thought if we do it with Bitcoin I can set them up completely. Organic and small farmers often do not have the possibility of a credit line nor the possibility of paying with a credit card. I saw an opportunity to bring Bitcoin to an ecosystem where it was not yet known, which was the organic farmers community . We realized that Bitcoin, was the easiest option with the lowest fees that we had. He understood immediately what Bitcoin was all about, and he realized the it was going to solve some of his problems, some problems that wouldn't allow for businesses like his to exist in the current scenario. It was a lot easier to use than a credit card and completely deregulated. So I told him that I could set up a website for him and he would be taking Bitcoin payments online And we started working on it and one week after we had a website running, selling vegetables online. It solves a bunch of issues for him, not only receiving payments, but also taking orders and keeping track of who ordered what and how they pay. Personally for me it is a payment mechanism much like a credit card, but it has the virtue of not having an intermediary, such as banks, and a lot easier to use. Although they are not using bitcoins directly, and they might not know what it is about, other farmers working in Tierra Buena network are getting a benefit from it. Tierra Buena is the first business in Argentina and perhaps dare I say the world, which is commercialising organic products, vegetables, honey and that sort of things, in bitcoins. I think Bitcoin empowers small farmers to get together and organize themselves and reach their market directly without any middlemen. Perhaps this is the most important social tool that we have discovered, because it allows us to work and receive payments in a totally deregulated manner. We are free to plant our own seeds, we don't buy the brand nor the patent from a multinational in order to plant, we don't need permission. Also we don't ask for anyone's permission for what to do with our own money. Something interesting I noticed while working with Santiago and other farmers in the Tierra Buena network is how decentralized their structure is, and I noticed that you can draw some parralellisms between that, and the decentralized origins of Bitcoin as well. I believe that organic farming, agroecological farming, offers us the possibility to work with something that is not polluting our environment nor the consumer, healthy products in every aspect.