FarmHack Event Tool

Does anyone have experience creating farm hack events for teens? My organization is working on an summer time initiative to promote sustainable farming and healthy eating in under-served food deserts in southern Maryland. I'd like to promote a culture of innovation around farming and thought teens would love to get involved in an event that enabled them to be creative and build useful things.

How to run a Farmhack event

Running a superlative, memorable and effective event is not rocket-science, but it is a learned artform. Take it seriously, and bring some whimsy. Farmhack events are generally co-organized by a small team, usually take at least a few hundred hours of coordination, and generally end up costing at least 500 dollars all told in hard costs. Take it seriously.

There's a lot on this Farm Hack Event Tool wiki. How about we start the documentation with a boiled down explanation of what a Farm Hack event is and the purpose/mission for these events.

A Farm Hack is...

... a two day brainstorming event that brings together people from all walks of life to collaborate as a community to come up with innovative ideas for problems that farmers are facing. It is the beginning of a community process of designing, building, and documenting tools for resilient agriculture.

Any other ideas on how to say it?

The new Farmhack event tool template is available to review and modify based on your experiences attending or organizing past events. The idea is to take what has made past events work well, and share them in a way to make folks in other parts of the country be able to duplicate the best aspects of them and have the fun, creative and productive culture of creating, sharing and improving come through.