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Category Archives: Farm Hack
farmhack worthy
when we say ‘farmhack’,
are you confused? inspired? want to know more? This awesome slideshare explains it all:
Farm Hack Minneapolis by Grant Schultz
And as always, check out the farm hack site
big press for a farm hacker
In Wired:
Analyze This: Design Contest Seeks Your Cheap, Open Source Spectrometers
By Nathan Hurst, 03.07.13
Spectral analysis might not really be your thing, but nonprofit science network Public Lab thinks it should be. Formed to provide a community for citizen scientists who want to monitor the health and quality of their surroundings, Public Lab launched today a crowdfunded challenge to create methods and equipment for an inexpensive, open source spectrometer.
“The reason that we started doing this … was in regard to pollution” says Jeff Warren, research director and co-founder of Public Lab. “The challenge is really to inspire people to look at that problem — that really big, pressing issue — that there are these contaminants in our immediate surroundings.” Continue Reading →
farmhack in the news !
By Danielle Davis / February 5, 2013
via Seedstock.com
Employing web-based social networking technology to simulate old school neighbor-to-neighbor information share, Farm Hack is a farmer-driven, collaborative project that develops, builds, documents and shares tools for resilient, small-scale agriculture. The secret behind it all is its use of an open source web platform that allows users to edit all the pages on the site – it’s basically a wiki site for farm technology and innovation – resulting in a user-driven community that self-evolves according to the needs of its members.
“It’s not a new thing for farmers to repair their own equipment, adapt their equipment or design new tools – this is something that’s been happening for centuries on small family farms – but the idea of Farm Hack is to use new forms of communication technology and organization to accelerate that process,” explained Kristen Loria, Farm Hack Coordinator. The general aim is to help make small farms more viable, successful and numerous, an evolution which Farm Hack believes will bring us towards a more sustainable, resilient and healthy system of agriculture and food.
Farm Hack accomplishes this in a number of different ways. Born in 2011 from the efforts of several Greenhorns and National Young Farmer’s Coalition members as a simple farm tech blog, the online community now provides templates for users to post documentation of tools they’ve designed or unrealized ideas they have.
Finish the article HERE via Seedstock.com
going to NOFA-NY this weekend?
Stop by the Farm Hack booth!
Farm Hack and NYFC are hosting a farm innovation exhibition Saturday and Sunday of the conference. We will be there with some sweet hacks, so don’t forget to swing by and chat with us. Bring hacks of your own, if you’ve got them! Find us by the pre-registration section, we will have our big banner, and the Culticycle. Oh yes.
thrills, delight: FARMHACK is easier to use than ever
Rj’s been on a bug fixing sprint, and added some tutorial videos.. just in time !
Winter, the best time to document existing tools, openly pine for ones you need,
and bond with others digitally and in person– around the creation, repair, and many hacks on the horizon.
For our mechanical progress.
Onwards!
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become a MAKER
culticycle
Here are some meditations on OPENSOURCE by Dorn Cox of Greenstart NH– a key leader of Farmhack. 
Here are some meditations on OPENSOURCE by Dorn Cox of Greenstart NH– a key leader of Farmhack.
“So many of the next steps we have talked about are around improving the value for the participant in farm hack, which in my mind is access to relevant information and community. One of the values of participating in opensource is, as Rob mentions, is access to project capital that would otherwise not be available. This is clearly an area that has a lot of potential to be enhanced on the site through facilitating multiple distributed funding methods – but is just part of the value. Another value is access to documented ideas and experiences from folks with skilled minds ready to problem solve with you – this is a little more complex because it requires a certain critical mass of people to jump in, and is more fragile because the exchange and value is more based on social relationships and a more nebulous future return which will likely not be directly linked to your own contribution. In academic terms it is ”complex reciprocity” – it is like a barn raising. Continue Reading →
farmhack coverage on civil eats
we’re diggin the story about farmhack AND civil eats’ swanky new website!
check ‘em both out here: http://civileats.com/2012/03/20/farmhack-diy-farmer-collaboration/
audio podcasts from farm hack!
Missed out on the Farm Hack fun?
Now you can catch up with audio podcasts!
Wow, how new media of us. Podcasts from Farm Hack NYC HERE
nice report back from farmhack
by Cathy Stanton.
Where slow food meets slow knowledge
I shed 40 pounds this week, and it feels great.
The weight was in the files and materials from the Ethnographic Landscape Study that I’ve been working on for the last three years for Martin Van Buren National Historic Site. The project is now officially finished, and the final report is printed and also posted as a PDF on the park’s website. And so I was able to move the files out of my office and take them to the park for eventual accessioning in their library collection.
Even with an amazing amount of material stored on a tiny flash drive (how did we get along without those things?), there was a substantial pile of paper. That, plus the fact that we were covering anthropology’s “historical turn” in my “History of Anthropological Thought” class at Tufts this week, has got me reflecting on the slow, meticulous process of doing ethnographically-oriented research that covers a long span of time.
The laborious pace of that kind of study was in sharp contrast to the let’s-get-it-done-now approach of an event I attended right after my visit to the park: a Farm Hack in Ithaca, New York. Continue Reading →
farm hack ithaca: success
This past weekend, Farm Hackers gathered at beautiful Ecovillage in Ithaca, New York for the biggest (and possibly baddest) Farm Hack yet.
Saturday featured live demos of various farm innovations operated, and in some cases developed by, local farmers, including a custom-built electric tractor, Japanese paper pot transplanter, and Cool Bot cooling system. The Groundswell Center for Local Food & Farming’s brand new Incubator Farm served as a perfect demo space.
The first of Sunday’s workshops focused on grain and bean production and processing, hosted by Cayuga Pure Organics. Anne Riordan, farm and milling operations manager at CPO, gave a tour of the production and processing equipment that allows CPO to grow a variety of heirloom grain and beans, and clean and sort them on site. Robert Perry of NOFA-NY also gave a demonstration of his mobile grain processing unit. Continue Reading →
nice report back from farmhack
farmhack ithaca / this weekend
>TOPICS
Demo build of Scrap Laundry Greens Spinner + CoolBot Cooler
Grain production and small-scale processing
On-farm innovations from Ithaca area farmers
Design Charrette: collective brainstorm to address on-farm challenges
>HOSTS
Groundswell Center for Local Food and Farming and the Groundswell Incubator Farm
Cayuga Pure Organics
>FOOD AND DRINK THANKS TO:
Ithaca Beer Co.
Stick and Stone Farm
Early Morning Farm
Tree Gate Farm
GreenStar
Wegmans
Ithaca Bakery
Cayuga Pure Organics
The Piggery
