Farm Hack

Hi everyone.

Insitu | Center for Socially Engaged Design is hosting a Farm Hack in the Ann Arbor area March 12th & 13th. We are looking for interested students, faculty, staff and community members to participate in this hack to develop solutions for a mobile, 3-season, heated and cooled chicken processing station for a local poultry farmer. For more information please visit: http://insitu.engin.umich.edu/farm-hack-march-12-13/

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Hello Farm Hackers,

We are looking  at hosting an event in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island on March 22, 2016; 'Accelerating Agri-Technology Summit.'

I am wondering if there is someone with a good presentation about what Farmhack is and who would be able to make a good presentation before an audience of 100+/- farmers and related agrifolks

If you are interested, please send me an email at: phil@peiadapt.com

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I found sections of this book very helpful in framing the Farm Hack project. I recommend others taking a look - especially around documentation and cultural best practices.

Some excerpts:

From Introduction "People should feel that their connection to a project, and influence over it, is directly proportional to their contributions."

More press about copy left hardware designs directly relevant to Farm Hack's repository/library model

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/richard-stallman-how-to-make-hardware-designs-free/

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/on-smaller-farms-including-organic-farms-technology-and-tradition-meet/

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Nice article about the Open Water Project which dovetails with our dialog at the last iFARM event.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/federicoguerrini/2014/05/12/grassroot-water-monitoring-and-open-data-a-fruitful-combination/

Frank Aragona just posted two podcasts on his Agroinnovations web site that cover on-farm biodiesel production, and the thinking and model behind Farm Hack and open source hardware.

They can be found here http://agroinnovations.com/podcast/2014/05/06/episode-139-on-farm-biodiesel/

and

Here http://agroinnovations.com/podcast/2014/05/20/episode-140-farm-hack/

Frank's other podcasts are terrific resource and I highly recommend checking them out! http://agroinnovations.com/