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Community principles help guide and inform our collaborative work by providing a framework in which we are working to acheive our goals as a community. This forum thread is a place to discuss the Farm Hack Community Principles and make any changes or additions.

Community Principles (working):

1. Farm Hack is a community to support user generated content and knowledge exchange.

2. We build tools that support sustainable farming and sustainable farmers.

Hi! We've been putting some work and thought into the Farm Hack method--a documentation methodology which can be applied to on-farm events, ag conferences, formal education, etc. It's a way of thinking about knowledge sharing that speaks to the Farm Hack philosophy. We'd love to hear what you think, hear about your using it, know what should be changed. This forum topic is a place for those discussions! Check it out. 

http://farmhack.org/wiki/farm-hack-culture

This is a new section to Farm Hack - the Culture page. Intended to make a place for diving into the "why" of Farm Hack: why do we hack? what are our principles and values? what are other relevant conversations?

Check it out - What do you think? Where would you like a Farm Hack Culture conversation to go?

Is there currently a FarmHack provision - or a policy or consensus - concerning posting URLs, images, or imbedded videos of useful tools shown and demonstrated on the internet?

Example of what I mean: Say I come across a good design for a DIY tool, device, or piece of equipment. The original designer/fabricator has shared it via a Youtube vid (or MakeZine article, or some other site/format). And, say, I want to share it with others here. Is it okay for me to do this... and, if so, how should I do it?

Hello Guys, Loving the innovative pedal powered machines!! Do you have any useful information, drawings, instructions etc for building our own kit for a local food resilience project? Kind Regards Matthew

New wire connector. Connects any wire 14 gauge or smaller. 4 per pack. New company starting up out on MN. A must for every tool box.

This is admittedly a shameless attempt at promoting something I'm trying to do for profit, and if it's inappropriate, please remove and I'll fully understand. Here's my story…in 25+ years in the farm equipment business it became apparent that there was a growing number of people leaving the city to move to rural areas to begin a new farm lifestyle. I would meet them when they were shopping for small tractors and equipment and it seemed like they all had fairly common questions to try to educate themselves.

The influence of the blue ray of the sunlight and of the blue colour of the sky, in developing animal and vegetable life; in arresting disease, and in restoring health in acute and chronic disorders to human and domestic animals, as illustrated by the experiments of Gen. A.J. Pleasonton, and others, between the years 1861 and 1876. https://archive.org/details/influencebluera00pleagoog

And next. CHAPTER SEVENTH.—CHROMO CULTURE OF VEGETABLE LIFE. . https://ia801503.us.archive.org/35/items/PrinciplesOfLightAndColor/ThePrinciplesOfLightAndColorByEdwinDBabbitt1878.pdf

Marvelous "Water Staircase" Lifts Stream 20 Feet. In its time ( 1922-1925 ), this was considered to be one of the greatest inventions ever, but for reasons unknown got lost since then. Here it is again.