farm hack minneapolis

FarmHack: Minneapolis

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FarmHack: Minneapolis

Grant SchultzVersaLand.com

organicgrant@gmail.com

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What is Hacking?Using the least amount of force to achieve the greatest net benefit.

Oftentimes the least expensive option

Typically considered ‘unconventional’ by society as a whole.

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Equipment HacksCutting Edge/Old School - Either Way It’s Not MainstreamNever Pay RetailInnovation - Building What Doesn’t Exist

Production HacksSystems - Leverage Appropriate & Accessible Technology

Data HacksGet Land - The Unconventional WayDistribution - Pricing - Wholesaling

What IS Farmhacking?

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Mission: TODAY

• Identify challenges...and brainstorm ways to overcome them

• Build a community of Farmhackers for long-term collaboration

• We’ll build out todays concepts over next few months

• FarmHack.net - Event forum, tools

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Hacking Urban Ag• Hoorays

• Distance-to-Market

• Technology Access

• Utility/Infrastructure Access

• Urban Lot Database

• Media

• Challenges

• Scale

• Security

• Housing

• Equipment accessibility

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Hacking Sustainable Ag

• Adapting Old/New Equipment

• Pioneering Production Systems

• Reducing ownership/acquisition costs

• Re-learning what we forgot

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THE AMERICAN SCHOOL BUSFARMING’S MOST VERSATILE TOOL HTTP://MIDWESTTRANSIT.COM

HOME STORECOOP

HARVESTPICKUP

COOP

TRAVEL

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• Livestock Transport

• Mobile Farmers Market

• Weatherproof Mobile Shop

• Melon/Pumpkin Harvest

• Poultry Coop

• Heavy Hauler

Do-Anything Bus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JDuZyyjqjMI

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Anatomy of a Farmhack

Parts Fabrication Automation+ =

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Anatomy of a Farmhack

Code Data Accessibility+ =

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Hacking is collaborative.

www.FarmHack.net

Event ForumTools

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FarmHack: GO!

• Identify Objectives

• Create a Plan

• Execute. FOLLOW THROUGH

• Share!

• Do it AGAIN

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Let’s Go Farmhackers!

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