new event idea

Most of our FarmHack events have been at engineering schools (mechanical, environmental, etc.). But I see a great opportunity to to team up with architects to develop designs that will benefit young and beginning farmers.

My vegetable farm started out really small and grew quickly over the course of 6 years or so. We were on rented land and challenged with making all of our infrastructure non-permanent.

There's a real need for designs for farm infrastructure that is:

Hello hackrarians, A flood of conversations at the MOSES conference has started the ball rolling for a Farm Hack event IN IOWA THIS SUMMER (2012). Location and exact date is TBD, but likely end of June. Respond to this thread to GET ON THE NOTIFICATION LIST!! New Belgium brewery and the National Young Farmers Coalition are on board as sponsors, with many more to come.

Hack on!