The Farm Hack River of Activity
Stream of Forum Topics
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Text feeding animals and such. | Trip3980 | Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 1:18am | Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 10:16am | 1 | |
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Solar in the rain cloud | Trip3980 | Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 12:41am | Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 12:41am | 0 | |
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Is there an Open Source component to this tool? | R.J. Steinert | Sunday, November 17, 2013 - 4:08pm | Monday, December 2, 2013 - 11:07pm | 1 | |
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Update on Black Soldier Fly Larva project? | sgeddings | Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - 1:44pm | Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - 1:44pm | 0 | |
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More quick attach specifications | jbd | Tuesday, November 12, 2013 - 8:09pm | Tuesday, November 12, 2013 - 8:09pm | 0 | |
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Produce processing and storage | Max Apton | Tuesday, November 12, 2013 - 2:00pm | Friday, February 21, 2014 - 7:32pm | 2 | |
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Grant money for innovative farm product | Katrina | Monday, November 11, 2013 - 10:57am | Monday, November 11, 2013 - 11:08am | 1 | |
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Clicking on link "Albert Rogers" loads wrong user profile | Sunny Slope Orchard | Saturday, November 9, 2013 - 10:54am | Saturday, November 9, 2013 - 2:39pm | 1 | |
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Mycorrhizal Associations; symbiotic fungi and improved fields | Michael of VIBR... | Friday, November 8, 2013 - 4:53pm | Saturday, January 24, 2015 - 8:08pm | 5 | |
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Hugelkultur | Michael of VIBR... | Thursday, November 7, 2013 - 9:15pm | Tuesday, October 21, 2014 - 2:49am | 7 |
Thanks for the info. I think that would probably work for most of what we are planting, but we are going to plant 1/8 acre of carrots this year and I'm concerned that the rocks are going to deform the roots....
One way around this, depending on the crops you have in mind would be to do no-till planting or transplanting, and use heavy mulches instead of cultivation for weed suppression. Generally an additive approach rather than extractive. It would have the added benefit of not bringing up new weeds seeds as well. You can see some of the equipment to make this work on a larger scale at Steve Groff's farm. On a half acre you would be able to do this approach easily by hand.
Hello all! My name is Joel Hallet, from the newly minted Hallet Family Farm, in Enumclaw, WA. We are just getting started this year with some row cropping and pastured poultry, with much help from the amazing Seattle Tilth Farm Works program.
Really excited about what Farm Hacks is doing, looking forward to learning a lot and paying it forward as time goes by!
We should talk with RJ about posting sketchup files. Until he gets it figured out you could post it to the 3D warehouse and then post a link to it in the listing. Here is a link to a sketchup Kubota I will start another thread to discuss our own sketchup library....
Good idea. farm fabrication tools as well as components would be great to add too. This might fit in with the marketplace concept. we had talked at last meeting we talked about fabricators subscribing to tool listings if they would be available to build entire tools or components.
I have a few G's, and one converted to electric. Allis made 25,000 G's, and stopped making them in 1953.
A million new farmers will need more tractors than the existing stock of old G's. I've started stockpiling components for an open-source junkyard tractor.
Stay tuned...
Also producer (wood) gas is awesome.
Good idea Dorn, I just put up a tools page about this project, http://www.farmhack.net/tools/electric-tractor-conversion
I don't know how to upload the sketchup file of my Allis G, do you know how?
I think this will be a good education for the community as we get it sorted out.
I was hesitant to publish the template without consulting the original poster first, but I did put revision comments. I think we can develop gentle language to cheer along new entries. I agree that there should be forum posts along with changes like this. Good suggestion.
I'm no lawyer, but I know that Linux got in trouble back in the day for not trademarking their brand name "Linux". Some smart ass decided to trademark Linux and then threaten suing every company with a product with the word Linux it its name (magazines, linux distributions, etc.).
So looking at the limited documentation that was originally added:
Perhaps by "Food Fractal is copyright Holocene systems, LLC" the person who added this tool meant trademarked. If that is the case and the design is released under AGPL then I do think it's a good fit for a Tool page.
Check out the new Tool "Tool wiki template" http://www.farmhack.net/tools/tool-wiki-template
I bet Loius would be interested. http://www.farmhack.net/users/louis
I'll email him about this thread.
please get in touch if you have time to discuss ideas and questions... fairbank@mit.edu
I don't have much to add since my Arduino has not even arrived yet, but sounds like we are pushing it to the limit which is pretty exciting.
Hi Grant-- Let me know when you have a graphic for the event and/or rsvp and/or schedule and I will put together a page at farmhack.net/iowa for the event and link to it from the front page. You can send it to farmhack@youngfarmers.org
Hey Eric,
It's great to hear that this device interests you! I'm tweaking the code of our first prototype and we'll hopefully have some sort of walk through within the month. On the wiki, I've linked to to where you can get most the parts but you'll have no trouble finding an Uno!
I've never used them myself but I hear great things about Adafruit's Arduino tutorials. If those don't suit you, you'll easily others floating around online!
I'm going to get an uno and start fooling around with it. This is the project that has finally got me off my duff. Looking forward to working with y'all.
Eric
I haven't decided what I think yet but these two statements stand out to me.
From Louis...
From Dan...
Since none of us are patent lawyers (yet :-P), feeling it out is perhaps the best we can do it seems. It will be interesting to see how this plays out in other communities. For now, as for dropping CC-BY-SA for CERN Open Hardware License 1.1 across the board, perhaps we don't have to do that and can instead state "CERN Open Hardware License 1.1" or "Public Domain" on the Wiki pages where we want it to apply. I could be wrong though and it's worth finding someone with enough knowledge on this topic to try and poke some holes in that idea.
Hi David, I've thought about doing that even for the Tool Wikis themselves. I think what we might be going for is having the tool's profile, the tool's wiki, and the forum all "below the fold". Below the fold is a term used to describe everything you see before you have to scroll down. So everything "above the fold" is the dream, but your suggestion is a good place to start until we have time to do a serious redesign of the tool pages. -RJ
Hi Eric, Thanks for reaching out! We're definitely interested in some remote collaboration. I know that Louis is busy designing and building the first prototype so when he settles on the parts list and gets the code up on GitHub then we'll be working on the documentation for assembling Fido. That would be a great place for you to jump in and we can iterate from there. You can stay in the loop by subscribing to the forum and wiki for this tool. I'm looking forward to working with you!
RJ
Farm Hack:IOWA is on like donkey kong!
JUNE 20-21 @ Echollective Farm, Iowa City, Iowa.
re: sharing imperative vs the protection imperative- does the addition of this lawyer legal speak actually protect the [idea/group problem solving practice] or does it simply keep the legal machinery in business?
RE: downstream patents -
1. they can only protect their particular branch and the source point can always support more branches.
2. amount of time and money it takes to get a patent (>$10K). very few companies would add that on top of a unprotectable public domain base.
practical or damn fool idealistic? not sure but public domain feels better.
either way, the logic eventually falls apart under close enuff inspeckshun... ;)
Hi Ben,
What about the automatic dishwashers like in many restaurant kitchens? I wonder if the mechanisms they use could transpose onto what you're imagining. One person moves trays of dishes into and out of one, once the door closes the water, soap, etc. turn on and clean everything in 90 seconds (sanitize too with super-hot water). I know just water is probably all you need, but could be another starting idea to work from.
Also, seems like a washer might need to accommodate different shape/size bins over time–round, rectangle, milk crate, etc.
-Rachel
It would be great to get documentation like user manuals and screen sizes used by the fanning mills for various crops. I wonder if the Johnny's folks would be interested in sharing some of that information? I think tracking down plans, or making plans from an old fanning mill would be a great project to post on this forum too – anyone have one they might be willing to document? Owners manuals etc. to scan? I think one of the "clipper" AT fanning mills is one of the next purchases for our farm – I have started cruising e-bay looking for good examples with lots of screens. Gravity separators, sorting tables and other similar devices seem fairly simple and not too difficult to document for the farm builder.
Hello Farm Hackers.. Looking forward to the upcoming season! Willing to collaborate building, designing, fabricating cheap and easy solutions to everyday farming and food production obstacles.
[this comment was migrated from the old Farm Hack Forum, it was originally posted on 2/20/2012]
Howdy Y'all.
I live and farm on the Eastern Shore of Virginia with my lovely partner Jeannie. We have some hogs (Tamworth/Razorback), some laying hens (mixed flock) and are in the midst of putting up a hoop house. We are new to having our own farm and are learning and doing a lot right now. We will be planting our first crop soon as well as getting some bees. We have a very low tech approach and are trying to get by without much equipment. We are most likely getting some dairy cows this spring/summer.
[this comment was migrated from the old Farm Hack Forum, it was originally posted on 2/17/2012]
Laurie - greens harvester is more or less this (before I knew it existed):
http://www.suttonag.com/HarvestStar.html
I''ll have once complete using new components (meat bandsaw frame and harvest cart) for under $800. HarveStar is $10,500
[this comment was migrated from the old Farm Hack Forum, it was originally posted on 3/3/2012]
Hey Grant, How's progress on the greens harvester? I sure could use one! Laurie
[this comment was migrated from the old Farm Hack Forum, it was originally posted on 2/12/2012]
Hey there, My husband and I farm 70 acres in southwest colorado. We are Certified Naturally Grown and grow hay, vegetables, some livestock, chickens, and we have a farm-to-table restaurant in Cortez called The Farm Bistro. Salad greens are our biggest market garden crop, and I'm in search of a small-farm-size mechanical harvester. Any ideas? peace, Laurie
[this comment was migrated from the old Farm Hack Forum, it was originally posted on 2/12/2012]
Hi… I'm Brett Peterson, and I'm a co-founder of ProfitableFarmer.com. A couple of us are creating a web-based (and eventually mobile) tool for small farm and market garden management with an emphasis on maximizing farm/garden profitability. Farm Hack strikes me as a great place to learn what small farmers and market gardeners may find helpful in this area.
I live in the Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota area.
[this comment was migrated from the old Farm Hack Forum, it was originally posted on 2/9/2012]