Download - Farm Hack Minneapolis
FarmHack: Minneapolis
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FarmHack: Minneapolis
Grant SchultzVersaLand.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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