Farm Hack Talk

Join National Geographic in Washington, D.C., on the weekend of May 3‑4, 2014, as we explore unique data sets about food production and distribution. We are looking for data storytellers and civic hackers to develop apps and create visualizations to address the important challenges of feeding 9 billion people by 2050. We'll supply the food, the food data, and the WiFi. You bring the ideas, and energy. Follow along on Twitter at #FutureOfFood.

http://hackathon.nationalgeographic.com/

Farmers are working with limited resources: limited time, limited labor, and limited land. It’s important that they make a plan to maximize those resources. It’s also important to have an expectation of when a their farm will start to generate revenue. To do this farmers need a crop plan, and this Google Spreadsheet allows them to quickly and easily map out a timeline for the growing season.

Seed to harvest timeline: http://goo.gl/PN6jYz

I have been doing my own growing in my back yard for quite a while and found a few thing about growing. If you look at soil all over the earth one thing is pretty apparent and that is the mineral content. Trace minerals are just as important in plant production as basic nutrients in the soil. After many hours of research I have found a few thing about the best ways to grow plants and aquaponics seems to have really made things click for me.

A group of scientists and food activists is launching a Thursday to change the rules that govern seeds. They're releasing 29 new varieties of crops under a new "open source pledge" that's intended to safeguard the ability of farmers, gardeners and plant breeders to share those seeds freely.

It's inspired by the example of open source software, which is freely available for anyone to use but cannot legally be converted into anyone's proprietary product.

Hi fellow farm hackers, I am in the process of building and designing "The Ultimate Eggmobile". I thought I would try posting the build on Farm Hack forum as it progresses. I have posted a few other projects as wikis and find there isn't much participation, so if you have anything to contribute to this build / idea I would like to hear it.

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.

The following thread has started on DIY Drones - and is a great case study about why we want to be able to have single sign-on across open source communities and subscribe/embed forums and wikis. Otherwise we will be forever having parallel posts across communities...

Hello

I've read during few hours lot's of content of the farmhack's website, and it's simply awesome. It give me lot's of ideas and I need some.

I'm trying to prepare a dev training soon in a school where I can be accepted if my project is a "digital projects relating to the general interest, education and social and solidarity economy". I'm french and I love the young farmers community. Some people leave the city to go back to the fields. I would like to help them with my project.

I had few ideas that I will explain below:

Is there a way to get the feed for http://farmhack.org/tools in to my RSS reader ?