Food Solutions New England

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Submitted by elfarrell on Mon, 10/14/2013 - 10:45am

Food Solutions New England (FSNE) is a regional food systems learning-action network dedicated to advancing a sustainable New England food system. The FSNE network is organized around four interrelated activities:

A New England Food Vision, a bold vision that calls for our region to build the capacity to produce up to 70% of food that is produced in an environmentally and socially sustainable manner, that promotes health and is accessible by all New Englanders by 2060; New England state food planning initiatives; annual New England food summits and topical workshops; and related analysis, communication and visualization.

The UNH Sustainability Institute serves as the backbone organization for FSNE. Since its inception in 2006, FSNE has advanced its mission by linking a common agenda, shared measurement, continuous communication, and synergestic activities.

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Forum Topics from Organization's members

Tine weeder tine jig - for on farm prodcution of replacement tines?

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Submitted by dorn on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 11:48am
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Identified Need - lower cost adjustable tine weeder tines

I was just reading Ben's post about building a belly mounted tine weeder for an Alis G, and looking at the economics of the tines from Lely or Kovar. I wonder if we might use the power of Farm Hack to develop a tine bending tool, so that we could get the cost per tine down to something well under the $15+ for the lely? This would also enable some customization and replacement when new ones are needed, or enable farms to try longer or shorter, stiffer, or softer tines based on their application.

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Submitted by dorn on Thu, 04/25/2013 - 1:03am

Hi Melissa, Welcome to Farm Hack! There is a lot of interest in using aircraft (and balloons and kites) to get aerial imagery for management and research purposes. There is an event in May in collaboration with public labs for the second year in a row focusing on how to best use open source imaging tools for agricultural purposes. More information can be found here

http://farmhack.net/forums/ifarm-imaging-agricultural-research-and-manag...

There is also a tool wiki to focus on the development and use of on farm imagery which I am sure you could add to as well -

http://farmhack.net/tools/ifarm-imaging-agricultural-research-and-manage...

Please feel free to edit and add to the wiki or starting some forum threads from the tool to kick off some more detailed discussion.

I am especially interested in the NDVI and spectrometry potential for rapid assessment of crop performance. There are some researchers here at UNH who are looking at using the spectrometer to get early warning of pests in orchards, and I am particularly interested in gathering data similar to what a Spad meter asses percent cover, identify species composition, and generate estimates of crop height.

I think that rapid data gathering is key to being able to implement adaptive farm management. Look forward to the dialog.