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By luseedhead

Complete step-by-step plans for building this light electric walking tractor for cultivation and other tasks. Weeding, cultivation, blind cultivation, stale bedding, light tillage, and more with this one horsepower electric machine.

By chriscallahanuvm

Rose Marie Belforti was interested in finding ways to manage excess livestock manure on her small farm. She wanted to design and test a prototype of an affordable hydraulic press scaled for small farm use that would sufficiently compress a...

By WinneganceOyster

A sinking clam bag/longline system designed to sit in the sediments below a floating subtidal oyster farm- allowing for increased use of vertical water-column.

By luseedhead

Complete plans for building a bicycle powered fanning mill. The fanning mill sorts, cleans, and grades seeds with two shaking screens and a winnowing tower. It is adjustable for all sorts of crops and operations. It can...

By luseedhead

Complete instructions for making a bicycle powered thresher. Thresher works on various crops including dry beans, wheat, rice, rye, einkorn, and lupine. Threshes about one pound per minute. This is the first of three tools for small...

By DGrover

FARMDATA is an internet based smartphone compatible records management system for produce farmers. Focus areas include field and greenhouse plantings, harvest, pack, inventory, distribution, e-invoicing, labor tracking, fertilizers, compost, cover crops, tillage, irrigation, scouting, spraying, and seed orders....

By luseedhead

Links below to the complete plans for bike powered tools for small scale grain processing; a thresher, a fan mill/winnower, and a dehuller/flour mill. The plans guide a farmer or a fabricator through step-by-step instructions using wood, metal, and...

By versaland

An open-source root washer that can be built sturdily with NO WELDING. Thanks to SARE for helping make this project happen!

By adriannetraub

Main Street Farms received a SARE Farmer grant for on-farm research of Black Soldier Flies larvae (BSFL) as an alternative food-source for aquaculture and livestock. We plan to raise and breed BSFL in a heated green house year-round to find...