GreenStart's mission is to foster a resilient energy and food system for New Hampshire by providing technical education and practical agricultural examples. An educational non-profit organization established in 2006, GreenStart sees food and fuel security as the end-product of a vibrant, sustainable agriculture system in New Hampshire.
New Hampshire has 40% of its land area in agricultural soils, yet farms only 10% and imports 95% of its food and fuel. New Hampshire has no significant petroleum resources. To feed and fuel itself from sustainable natural resources, New Hampshire must improve its soils while also improving production.
To achieve this end, GreenStart facilitates projects that
1) increase soil carbon “banking”
2) decrease energy inputs
3) increase both food and fuel outputs (positive energy and carbon balance)
4) promote “tight” cycling of nutrients
5) provide opensource access to appropriate knowledge, seeds and equipment
Great to see your post - Our farm has started to parch/roast sweet corn and flint corn for corn meal and were thinking about having a local coffee roaster do it, but I think that this would be a great project for the farm hack community. I think if the root washer setup with a steel mesh screen instead of wood slats were combined with the flame weeder setup - including the ignition module that is posted that it would probably be a fairly efficient setup. The pedal power setup is here
http://www.farmhack.net/tools/low-cost-pedalpower-rootwasher
The ignition module here
http://www.farmhack.net/tools/electronic-flame-weeder-ignitionelectronic...
Here are a couple other posts from the beer brewing communities - the images are attached.
http://www.heydenrych.info/grain_roaster.html
http://thebrewingnetwork.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3019
and from coffee roasting
http://www.costa-rica-mountain-property.com/Mountain_Coffee.html