Hi. Hey, I miss FarmHack activity. Ideas?? What would it take to get the dialogue & illustrated technical posts happening again?
My question isn't rhetorical. I want to find out what you think.
All the best to you, your family, your land, and Planet Earth.
(This post is cross posted from my blog at http://rjsteinert.github.io/blog/index.html#!2016-08-16/will-farmers-make-money-from-data.md)
If you have a great idea, technology or set of practices to share with a community of farmers and food systems activists, please propose a workshop for the 2017 NOFA/Mass Winter Conference. You can fill out the online proposal form here: http://www.nofamass.org/content/winter-conference-workshop-presenter-form
The event takes place on January 14th at Worcester State University; honorarium is $50 plus registration and an all-local lunch!
More info: caro@nofamass.org
If irrigation work automatically by the help of sun than its so fantastic. For example: in which area no water on field Irrigation system automatically detect and working according.
I created a video tutorial on how to collect temperature data using a Yoctopuce Temperature Sensor, Raspberry Pi, and farmOS. Check it out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCflGeOpTqk
Hi, Just found this wonderful site. I'm in need of an apiary crane to lift heavy supers. I am envisioning a crane that could wheel under a hive stand and have an adjustables crane pole and pulley system where I could have pre-set eye hooks drilled into my hive supers (four, one near each corner) that I could hook onto a pulley that would lift the super by motor. I'd like to build something that would drop one side (not each corner but whole sides) at a time, so when the supers go back on I can brush bees out of the way as it slowly lowers back into place.
I thought this was kind of a cool product idea and am kind of gathering input and experiences on it - a solar hot water heater.
http://www.permies.com/t/57410/energy/Solar-water-heater-plans-safe
We raise chickens (and a toddler), and hot water is just something we gotta have access to around here. Has anyone ever built a system like this?
Enclosed aerated composting vessels are efficient in processing organic wastes, but expensive and site specific. Given the glut of shipping containers (thanks to trade deficits) why not re-purpose these and convert them into mobile enclosed aerated vessels. And why stop at just replicating the typical vessels, when a few further simple mod's could capture all the products of aerated composting - namely heat and CO2 production.
Greetings!
This is my first post...so be gentle ;-) Not sure I'm posting the right way or in the right place.