Getting Started:
You can read our [mission statement] to help motivate yourself to participate.
You can identify your strengths and think about how you can contribute.
Maybe you fall under one or more of the following categories: general food systems interest (non-technical person), technical interest (programmer or engineer), or farmer.
do any of the following statements apply to you: i'd like to attend an event to meet local farmers and engineers. i'm not technical but i like food and want my local food system to be more resilient. I'm an engineer and i'd love to help a farmer with technical issues they are facing
i'm a computer savvy person who would like to help document local farmer innovations to share with others through the site.
i'm a farmer and i have things i would like for my farm and/or solutions i've developed that i would like to share.
mission statement & longer statement of principles (design, community, etc)
Farm Hack aims to nurture the development, documentation, and manufacture of farm tools for resilient agriculture.
We exist as an infrastructure, providing an online platform for community-based sharing and collaborative research. Individuals and organizations, non-profits and businesses alike, are invited to participate and represent themselves.
This same community exists offline in the form of meet-ups, workshops, and build events. We promote local embodiments of Farm Hack wherever interested parties seek to rally under the banner of open-source farm tool development and skill-sharing.
We believe that greater knowledge sharing will lead to improved tools, skills and biological insight to achieve our goals with elegance. Open-source seeds, breeds and technology are the fastest way to accelerate the innovation and adaptation.
As a result we are focused on attracting into our community not only farmers but those with other relevant skill-sets: engineers, roboticists, designers, architects, fabricators, programmers, hackers. It is those that live to build and make things work that are the key allies to turn ideas into tools and then into finished products.
By documenting, sharing and improving farm tools, we can improve the productivity of sustainable farming. The result will be healthy land, abundance of fresh food, and invigorated local manufacturing.
Farm Hack is a participatory and cumulative project that is as strong as we make it together. We invite you to join.
promo video
instructional: “how to participate”
I like Dan's suggestion of having 3 (or more?) basic audiences: general interest (non-techie), technical interest (programmer/engineer) and farmer So, these instructions should also be tailored for each of those audiences.