Idea

Every year, we see our world population growing and a subsequent decrease in food availability. Rural America and its small farmers are losing access to labor, ingenuity, youth, and capital. Food quality and safety are being compromised for profit and an unsustainable notion of 'progress.' Budgets are getting increasingly tight for small businesses. The desertification of our environment and build up of toxins in the eco-systems is rapidly advancing, as we approach what is believed by many scientists to be the sixth mass extinction.

Hi Everyone! Last weekend Severine and I sat down and organized the FarmHack.net Next Steps list. We set our priorities to 1) moving the frontpage over to FarmHack.net (it's currently at NYFC's site), 2) reorganizing the header, and 3) building out a commerce/listing/classifieds section. This past weekend Louis and I talked over this idea of topics (see Simplifying the Site for New Users conversation).

High-Tech Circuit Design Company Goes Awry To Serve Farmers with Niche Electronic Needs

One day I am going to own my own hi-tech cattle farm.

But before I can own my own farm, I have to build a sustainable custom electronics business.

My company, Henway Technologies, designs and manufactures electronic circuit boards. My clients are new product design teams, business owners, and well funded start-ups. I currently own a 3,000 sq ft office in downtown Akron, OH where the design and manufacturing takes place.

Hi All, Severine asked me to put this up here:

Description of this project idea:

Ben and Dorn please add your thoughts so we can post it as a concept and start building community around this goal on farmhack.

Concept phase

Using the GitHub for writers manual I've been working on, I'll try my hand at getting this massive Microsoft Word document into a plaintext format that will be presented nicely on GitHub. I'll format it using the Markdown syntax that we use on our wikis here on FarmHack.net.

This approach has the following advantages...

Hi Clayton, It sounds sounds like your software does some cool stuff. I find doing how-to videos of the software I build helps users understand why the software is useful to them and it also decreases the barrier to entry because it's no longer unfamiliar territory. I'd love to see a video of how to use this myself as I might use if for my garden this spring! If you need any help figuring out how to do a screencast let me know, I'd be happy to help out. -RJ

Loading up the tractor to take tools out to the site and lugging them back to the house ate up at least an hour of daylight. As farmers we all know that daylight is valuable. We clearly needed a shed. Dumpstershed solved that problem. This allowed us a secure and "non permanent structure" way to have a storage shed on site. We will be bringing drawings to the 2013 Detroit Farm Hack on Sunday March 17th. Hope to see you there!

I'm looking for some assistance hacking a soybean roaster, or locating someone who will custom roast near Johnson County, IA.

As a small-scale poultry producer, as much as I'd like to buy organic feed, at this time it's out of my price range and I'm seeing other poultry producers in my area in a similar position.

I've managed to track down some conventional non-GMO sources for corn, soy, alfalfa, and oats, and secured access to a grinder and mixer. The challenge now is roasting the non-GMO soybeans.

...Anyone tried hacking a roaster?

Since it is clear that language and content will need to be updated to make this content current and relevant - there should be some standard ways of doing it. My thought right now for shorter texts like the preface is to simply copy and past it so that there are two identical sections - perhaps using Cited format.

New fully editable text

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Historic text for reference