The Farm Hack River of Activity

I would love to be able to see the documents listed so I can attempt to build my own.

http://farmhack.org/wiki/how-manage-balancing-college-and-everything-else

I have 15 acres of 40 total that are wet and un-plantable.  I would like to dry the area so I can plant wheat or allow livestock to graze there.  What are my options?  I live in Michigan.

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Hey there - I really hope you see this. I'd like to see the plans and supporting documents for your shipping container post-harvest shed/commercial kitchen. Can you send them to me? http://farmhack.org/tools/shipping-container-post-harvest-shedcommercial-kitchen It says you have "ie. SketchUp files, CAD drawings, photos, video, technical drawings" Thanks, Jordan Maple Bloom Farm

he idea of having things connected to the internet is that it streamlines data-logging (you don't have to physically remove any memory sticks) and now the user can observe and control the network in real-time from anywhere with internet connection.
What's also nice is that once you have the basic framework down (ie: XBee Coordinator –> Arduino –> Internet), you can start adding more nodes with different functions which many people suggested this weekend:
- monitoring refrigeration
- monitoring wash stations
- monitoring and alarms of movement in fields
- automating chicken feed
- weather stations
- monitoring energy use
- electric fence node

Since you mentioned this my current campaign is about Magnetic card readers and it maybe attached to anything and can be controlled via internet. Try reading this as it may be a good resource for the your ideas https://www.lintechtt.com/blog/.

Thank you very much for your information. I know this sensor is really useful. I might buy one soon. I started searching this but no one could ever provide me the benefit of the temperature sensor. Again thank you

Hi, not sure if you are still around since this post is almost 3 years old but ill aska nyway, Im trying to build this for my calves as well. Im testing it and trying to "calibrate" it, however, Im not getting stable results for example, after I zero the board and wait some 10 to 20 minutes the values fluctuate a bit as usual but instead of getting -1, -2, 3,, 0,1 etc (around zero) I start to get 9, 10, 8, 10, 11, 7, ... or shifting to around -4: -3,-5,2, -1, 0, etc,... this makes calibration very difficult because Im not sure if the zero has shifted up and down as Im weighing things... My question is, do you think the power suppply voltage has anything to do with this fluctuation? Im using two 9 volt batteries in series, 180 ohm resistors (changed the formula accordingly) and I got the dwyer 626 with less error than the 628, any suggestions or tips are welcome!

If I follow your question, you are interested in understanding how much torque will be available along your drivetrain.  You have pedals on a shaft with a sprocket driving a chain, that drives a smaller sprocket on another shaft.  The torque, or rotational force, starts through the system at the pedal.  Making some assumptions for the sake of an example, let's say the pedal arm is 7 inches long and the sprocket is 8 inches in diameter or 4 inches in radius.  If you push down with a force of 100 pounds on the pedal 7 inches from it's rotational center, and the sprocket transfers the force into the chain 4 inches from the rotation center, the force will be the ratio of 7 to 4 times 100 pounds of force or 175 pounds of force in the chain.  If the second shaft has a sprocket driven by the first chain of 4 inches in diameter and a larger sprocket of 8 inches in diameter the second chain will transmit force in a ratio of 1 to 2 times the 175 pounds of force in the first chain or 87.5 pounds of force.  

Thanks for listing most of the items that are used in a farm shop, were really very helpful to me..........

 

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Hello,

I'm no expert by any means, I'm new here and I've been an Urban Farmer for less than a year. What I can tell you about Urban Farming, at least here in my area is that the local government wants to lump us in with the community gardeners and they don't want to tax you as an agricultural entity unless you're already a profitable business. For me as a person starting a farm on a blighted city lot I face a lot of pilferage and theft of equipment. Security is difficult when most of the people you encounter are drunk or high and looking for a way to feed their habit before they feed themselves. 

I currently have 36 small raised beds on my farm and a lot of projects in process. We're clearing brush from a small thicket where homeless persons have been living, Our planting strategy changed when we discovered that our property that had been four home sites were filled with gravel and slag with only three inches of soil on top when the county tore them down. So in come the wood chips and we're going to chip and or compost every bit of waste off the land until we build up from what is essentially a rock pile. 

So far as vertical farming is concerned- I'm not sure where the break even scenario is with that. I know that starting my own seeds under LED lights saves a little money in the short term but across a certain time span, more than 30 days the return diminishes and becomes more labor intensive and the savings goes away. In a larger scale in an industrial setting it would only be greater expense and I would imagine that economy of scale is almost impossible to reach. That said there is a difference also in growing a volume of food and growing stuff that tastes good also. So my preference is definitely going to be growing outdoors in the sun. 

Hello, My name is Joshua. I live 14km south of  Puerto Jimenez, Costa Rica completely off-grid on a Permaculture Farm i co-own named Finca Morpho(4.2 hectare on the beach). We are an open source farm and share everything we make and do on our website when we have time to write it up.

We looking to give back to the open source movement and trying to help open source collectives like Life Hack by offering 1-2 spots on our farm from Jan-Aug for rotation of choosing or as could be used. We are offering free shared room and board for the open source movement and would love to be able to host open source retreats and events for the movement. Looking to start talking about hosting as soon as anyone is interested.

HI MNick, I like your design. I have a large scale worm farm in Oregon and would love to talk to you more about this design. What would be the best way to contact you? Thank you. -AJ