Farm Hack Talk

Noticed that this link isn't working on several (maybe all) tools.

Thanks!

www.adabio-autoconstruction.org (unless you speak French, you will need Google translate for the website)

Julien and Joseph from " Ada bio Autoconstruction" are coming across from France to visit farms in Canada, Vermont, NY state-- Severine is driving them around. These are the open source hackers who have focused on tool-design and fabrication skills training for diversified organic farms in France, and have managed to get funding from the French government to train farmers how to build their own equipment! If you are a Farm Hack fan, you've likely already heard about them.

I recently started a Pinterest "board" concerned with "rural methods, tools, and equipment". This consists of "pins" (descriptive entries with pics) about methods, technologies, repurposing options, technique details, and tips of potential value to small farms and to homesteads. It's not aimed at the multi-generation conventional farm, nor at the corporate farm.

http://www.pinterest.com/joelbc/pins/

I'd like to create a group of people interested in arduino for agriculture. Been blogging and tweeting a lot about this @agroinnovations and agroinnovations.com. I've already started to build the list community. Wondering what the best route for doing this is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Asxwnj3PpU4

A New(?) way to get excess heat out of a greenhouse, plus it recycles the heat. This is a trench type greenhouse, making good use of the 50 degree(10 degree c.) temperature of the soil 3 feet(1m.) down. Also, a removable double layered greenhouse panel of a new design is used.

I'm surprised there is so little activity on this site. I'd like to see more - probably others would, too. (By the way, my thanks go out to the techies who keep this forum system operating.)

Why I'm surprised at the low activity is that there have been all the Farm Hack events. Surely a promising or viable design or method is occasionally coming out of these.

There are threads started here (often with a pic or two) and orphaned. No follow-up, even when interest has been shown via a reply to the topic.

Does anyone know were I can get information about the transplanter in the main video in the home page? You will see it a about 1:00. It is like a two wheel cart she is pulling behind herself planting lettuce. I couldn't find anything in the tools sections. Really want to know what it is called and how it works.

Anyone intested in working on a Lawnbot for farm paths?

http://makezine.com/2012/01/05/make-an-arduino-controlled-rc-lawn-mower/

Several members of the Farm Hack team just got back from the World Maker Faire in NYC this past weekend. The Farm hack area had great deal of traffic all weekend with lots of questions, interest and interaction with the group of tools we brought from all over New England. The tools included everything from pedal powered root washer, water pump, and tractors, and flame weeder, to aerial imagery equipment and electronic field sensors.

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