Kiva Zip: Crowd-fund your farm innovation
You likely have heard of Kiva.org, a micro-lending site that lends to the entrepreneurial projects of individuals in developing countries through crowdsourced financing. A year-old project of Kiva is...
View ArticleFarm Innovation Talk with Ben Flanner of Brooklyn Grange
Ben Flanner, president and farmer at the NYC rooftop farm Brooklyn Grange (and co-host of Farm Hack NYC last fall), talks on this week’s Farm Report episode about different organizations and projects...
View ArticleThe Quadractor: an all-purpose work vehicle
The Quadractor, manufactured in the 1970s and 1980s by Traction, Inc. in Vermont. The quadractor has a vertical shaft gear train originally developed by William Spence for using in aircraft landing...
View ArticleReport back from Farm Hack BUILD @ Northland Sheep Dairy
Excerpted from the Two Spruce Farm blog, written by Northland apprentices Daniel Grover and Scott Hoffman. Read the whole post here. The past two days, we’ve been working on the poetic project of...
View ArticleInfragram: A cheap infrared camera for monitoring plant health
The folks over at Public Laboratory initially developed the Infragram camera, a near-infrared camera that assesses photosynthetic activity in plants, to empower citizen science monitoring of wetlands...
View ArticleNo Lot Left Unfarmed
Main Street Farms is an urban aquaponics farm, organic plant nursery, and education center in Homer NY, devoted to sustainable agriculture and local food security. Main Street Farms collaborated with...
View ArticleVote to help Farm Hack get to Maker Faire NYC!
Dear Farm Hack posse, help your fellow farm hackers get their hacks to Maker Faire NYC this fall! Farm Hack is in an online voting competition for $2,500 so that we have a truck to take us to Maker...
View ArticleFarm Hack Davis Meetup! Sept 15th
Farm Hack Davis – Come meet up for beers and conversation with fellow farmers and tinkerers at Plainfield Station outside of Davis! Sunday, September 15th, 4–7 P.M., Plainfield Station Hi folks! The...
View ArticleApitronics Kickstarter is Live! Check it out.
Apitronics is an exciting start-up of Farm Hacker Louis Thiery, originally birthed from a Farm Hack NH greenhouse monitoring project. The Apitronics Kickstarter is live, and it’s great! You can...
View ArticleRepair Cafe: a free meeting place for repairing things
A simple and brilliant idea for the DIY, anti-disposable, community-based hacker movement! Repair Cafés are free meeting places and they’re all about repairing things (together). In the place where a...
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