http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/on-smaller-farms-including-organic-farms-technology-and-tradition-meet/
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*These notes are from our Organizers Call on 11/20/2014. Organizers Calls are a weekly e-gathering of Farm Hackers working on a variety of projects, sharing their progress, and moving projects forward. The format is informal and interested contributors are welcome. For an invite, email Daniel Grover @ [farmhackopen@gmail.com](mail to:farmhackopen@gmail.com).Notes with links to Trello cards can be found at this hackpad
Main Topic: NESARE Grant Proposal for a Partnership Grant
These notes are from our Organizers Call on 10/16/2014. Organizers Calls are a weekly e-gathering of Farm Hackers working on a variety of projects, sharing their progress, and moving projects forward. The format is informal and interested contributors are welcome. For an invite, email Daniel Grover @ [farmhackopen@gmail.com](mail to:farmhackopen@gmail.com).
An interesting related approach to open source remote sensing and high resolution geolocation, precision ag. The presentations from their ISOBlue day are a really nice walk through of their work.
http://www.isoblue.org/
http://hackaday.com/2014/09/23/thp-semifinalist-honeybee-hive-monitoring/
Here is an article I wrote about the root digger we manufactured at Welcome Table Farm in Walla Walla, WA.
http://betweenourselvesandourland.wordpress.com/2014/09/04/root-digger/
I'm a writer for a company called iFixit, which offers free open-source repair manuals for all kinds of electronics. We're doing research on technologies that have been limited by the DMCA, and—with help from some folks law students around the country—we've been specifically looking at farming equipment.
If we replicate the Ecologic Services of the extinct megafauna, since 7 billion of us makes us the new Megafauna, then we could build back Soil Carbon with massive increases of Net Primary Production. An ecology not seen for 12,900 years. An Ecology not limited by Phosphorous, Sodium & lost Soil-C. A great synergy of the work restoring mine scarred lands & developing consumer, Horticultural & Agricultural markets.
another instance of using the field calibration card with low cost imagery and an image library. Lots of potential to expand this approach.
http://www.specmeters.com/greenindexsupport/