The Farm Hack River of Activity
Stream of Forum Topics
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Hi res versions of logos please, maybe flyer templates too? | ormr | Monday, July 6, 2015 - 7:30am | Thursday, July 9, 2015 - 8:00pm | 1 | |
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Open Source Ecology Workshop Series | marcin_ose | Tuesday, June 23, 2015 - 12:56am | Tuesday, June 23, 2015 - 12:56am | 0 | |
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The requested page "/app/host-an-event" could not be found | ormr | Thursday, June 4, 2015 - 7:44pm | Saturday, June 20, 2015 - 1:03pm | 3 | |
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How is it mounted? | Eden's Gardener | Sunday, May 31, 2015 - 4:35pm | Sunday, May 31, 2015 - 4:35pm | 0 | |
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wired article on farmer data network | dorn | Tuesday, May 19, 2015 - 11:44am | Tuesday, May 19, 2015 - 11:44am | 0 | |
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Multi Crop Harvester for Diverse Grow Operations | Kelly Mayo | Thursday, May 7, 2015 - 6:45pm | Thursday, May 7, 2015 - 8:53pm | 1 | |
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iFARM 2015 “Experiencing the Sensed Landscape” | dorn | Thursday, May 7, 2015 - 10:06am | Thursday, May 7, 2015 - 10:06am | 0 | |
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Typical weight range? | Louis | Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - 10:08pm | Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - 9:36pm | 1 | |
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Zeroing problem and ratio problem | JPL | Monday, April 27, 2015 - 8:14pm | Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - 6:38pm | 1 | |
| Possible to bring back the vid? | Joel_BC | Monday, April 27, 2015 - 7:13pm | Thursday, May 7, 2015 - 9:15pm | 3 |
We have been using 20x60' used billboards which are a bit heavy to move, but are OK with two people once unfolded. They can be dragged from one section to another fairly easily and are heavy enough they don't blow around if a bit of weight is placed at edges. They cost about $100 plus shipping. I think we got ours at https://billboardtarps.com/. Depending on weather it seemed like we got a good kill in about two weeks.
Hi possumhillfarm, If you didn't hear back from wisonsingarlicfarm, you can try contacting them directly on their contact form here -> http://farmhack.org/users/wisconsingarlicfarm
Cheers,
\ RJ
I have not given that much thought since I just made my drill as a one time project for my particular use. I only have to deal with fairly fine residue when I plant which is no problem. But I suspect that for heavy residue you would need to mimic standard no-till drill designs which use paired coulters slightly angled to simultaneously cut through residue and create a furrow. You would also need to use press wheels to close the furrows rather than the scraper blades I use which would clog with residue. Good luck,
Bill
I've gotten the "pingtags" application coded and working. But now I have to build out more hardware for a better test. This means eartags and more base stations (anchors).
What people won't be seeing is all the software I had to write to figure out the Beaglebone Black, GPS and XBee's. But I hope most of that is now past.
I live across the state from you in Jupiter. I am wrapping up my PhD in Holistic Nutrition and Natural Health. (My Info: www.TiaJolie.com/biography) I was planning to use a similarly sized plot north of me here on the Atlantic Coast for this effort. Will you please share with me a bit more about the property? Is it completely arable? Is it currently grown? If so, what is its crop/orchard status, please? Do you intend to retain ownership, co-partnership, tenancy or outright sale? Thank you!
You might reach out to the Rodale Institute directly--I'll bet they could help you with photos.
Hello to everybody. I'm in the southeast of British Columbia, in a mountain valley almost above Idaho. My little family has a bit over eight acres, and we've been here for years now. We've kept chickens in the past, and may keep them again - none right now. We've got a greenhouse and several veggie/berry garden patches, all organic. A few fruit trees and grape vines, too.
My wife is a professional artist and art instructor, and I've worked in various aspects of the publishing field, mostly for magazines and newspapers. In our early years on the land, I worked also in construction: acquired skills with carpentry, masonry, electrical wiring, plumbing, etc. I've got some small-engine skills, but it's only in the last six years or so that I've acquired welding skills.
Currently especially interested in what can be done with repurposing and upcycling of machine components, junk parts, cast-off household items, scrap materials (etc) in the design and building of useful structures and equipment. Interested in this especially re: the practicalities of food production, energy-production, energy-efficient buildings, etc.
Recourcefulness is always important, but maybe especially so during an economic time that is stagnant or contractive.
Baruch77, Instructables works for me. Maybe try it again. But I identified three that were not working (probably originally found too long ago now), and I believe I've properly corrected/updated those. Thanks for the two you've suggested.
Let's keep this going!
Thanks for the links. Two did not work. The instructables and the inhabitat pages. A couple more would be offgridworld.com and offgridquest.com
the current pics dont work could you please post better pics I want to build this one
Thanks
Hi Joel,
Please do share! I think most folks have posted links, or embedded the content in a tool forum post. You could also start a stand alone wiki and link to it. If you are up for writing a blog about it, there is a team that is gearing up to generate more blog content which might be a good fit too. We have talked about adding more of this reddit type of function to the social side of the site, so it is great to hear your take on it.
Of course it would be fantastic to reach out to the author and see if they would cross post directly themselves...
The Farm Hack web team is working on some improvements to the tool pages, so stay tuned and look forward to your feedback! The new tool organization may make posting these kinds of links clearer - I think it would be great if we had a space(Skills section) for curating videos of fabrication and other technical skills that the Farm Hack community finds useful.
Here is a link to the deere industrial engine used in these combines -
http://www.deere.com/en_US/products/engines_and_drivetrain/industrial/ti...
Took me a bit to respond - but the farm hack font is primer print - which you can find here
http://www.free-fonts.com/font/primer.html
If you download the font, you can create the tag lines in what ever size you need.
I just uploaded copies of the original blueprints. We have made a few changes to this during construction, but it gives a pretty good idea of what the final product will be. This fall/winter I'll update the blueprints to reflect exactly how the building was constructed.
Have you seen the Prosoil project at IBERS, Aberystwyth? [http://www.prosoilproject.uk/en/] Collaborative approach to developing soil health using development farms backed by controlled experimtents.
Great, thanks for the information, and it would also be amazing to see a tool wiki some day in the future.
When I was farming in Michigan one problem was that all soybeans were sent to Illinois because there was no plant to process them, unless you hired someone to raost them. In Maine soy production is small for the same reason. But with these soy locally grown can be processed creating both oil and soymeal for feed.
Hi Sam - there are several that have been experimented in within the community but a tool wiki has yet to be created to document them. Your post is a good reminder to get it done! I have the expeller screws which I have been hoping to scan as a 3D model for folks to share and study, but i have not done it yet. The most common around here is are the small Anyang (AGICO) Chinese based presses and the German kernkraft. I have most of my experience with both the 1 ton/day and 6 ton per day chinese models pressing sunflower and canola - the models I have worked with came from http://www.ayimpex.com/Oil-Milling-Machinery/6YL-Series-Oil-Press.html . The Chinese ones are more of a hack because, although they work well, are really much nicer if they are disassembled, sand blasted, repainted and repowered for 220 or US three phase - which is worth doing when they start out at 1/4 or less of the price of the others. I think i got my first one for less than $1000 delivered to the US. You can see a nice comparison of European models in a review done by UVM of small scale presses. here: http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/2014%20-%20Callahan%20et%20...
Happy to answer questions, and help with documentation!
Hi ormr, Thanks for the catch on the link. I fixed that in the code and it will be going live with our code release this week.
\ RJ
Thank you for the logo. The page still isn't fixed though.
Did it have such things as the hi-res logo on it? Having resources for making promotional material makes the whole process a lot easier for the organisers.
I was also hoping for the logos with the subtitles, if that's not too much trouble.
The broken link is noted (looks like it is broken on the home page but not others). Thanks for the note about the logo. Here it is.
Finally have a working protoype built and created a video for a GoFundMe campaign to raise startup capital. Once the tractor has been refined into a final product, I expect that we will be producing equipment for small and micro farms. This is a growing market and there is demand for green powered equipment. If all of you can comtribute a small amount so that I can get past the $500 threshold, GoFundMe will open up the campaign to the search engines, which then people around the world can contribute. Thanks to all. Here is the link to the video. http://gofundme.com/qy3k9h9s Or you can see it on You Tube with the title, "GFM Campaign".
Thanks Matt! It would be great to have you involved! I do most of the planning/task management on the drupal.org issue queues (they work really well for maintaining Drupal modules), but the repos are also mirrored on github.com/farmOS. I'm also usually hanging out in IRC #farmOS on freenode. Love to have you in the discussion!
Hi Michael, I've just come across this project :) I haven't even looked at an installation or any of the code/modules yet, but as a long-time drupaler myself, a fan of open source ecology, and also as someone increasingly interested in food and farming (of the CSA's and permaculture variants) this is definitely a project I'm interested in learning more about and possibly contributing to.
Cheers!
Matt Sorenson
Hi Joel, I have a link ready to go on the front page for the movie. Currently having some DNS issues so I'll have to push it later. Where to put the activity stream is a big question for us right now.
We currently have the old home page here -> http://farmhack.org/home/
And an early version of the activity stream here -> http://farmhack.org/activity/
It might make sense to have it as it's own page but maybe somewhere else as well. The trick is if it has its own page, where to put the link.
\ RJ
I like this idea democratises the assets. But it would be great to use @farmhack.org email addresses.
I dont like the general over reliance almost everywhere on Google - gmail, hangouts, youtube, search, drive, docs etc. They get way to much of everyones data!!!! and have you ever stopped to read the terms and conditions? I read a bit of their email terms and you are effectively handing many rights over to them.
Could set up email on a server somewhere (obvious disadvantage is more work for devs/admin) or run redirects - some domain hosts give loads of redirects - eg. 1000 with https://www.gandi.net/
List of alternatives to gmail worth considering - https://www.privacytools.io/#email
There is the New Idea Uni-Harvester concept. One power unit that can power various different havester components. I would be interested in exploring this. Where do you live?
I'm sure the changes reflect and implement the best direction. If the video can be fit in again, someplace, then I think it can be valuable for some people (hence also for FarmHack).
Another thing that I miss are the icons indicating recent comments (their topic, and who made the comment). These used to be on the FarmHack home-page. On the "Conversations" page all I see on my browser is a list, and I find it somewhat harder to understand and find my way with it. Just my feeling... FWIW.
I posted a new design tonight for the YX80. Gives you 80 seeds per rotation of the wheel. YX is sized for arugula seeds. Increased hole size from 2.5mm to 2.6 mm.
It costs $3-4 a wheel on our printer. That is just for materials, not the cost of the printer or electricity to run it. The purpose of making these wheels was to get custom specs on the wheels to alter seed size, seed spacing. I imagine they can be printed at local makerspaces or commercial 3d print shops. I do not plan to duplicate any of the authentic Jang seeder wheels. I just want to create and share my customizations.
Enjoy, Jeff