OpenFarmTech & Global Village Construction Kit

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Location: Foothills north of L.A., zone 9ish mediterranean

posted 14 years ago

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[video=youtube;CD1EWGQDUTQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD1EWGQDUTQ&feature=player_embedded[/video]

http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/

The podcast gives a good idea of the big picture of where they are headed with this:
http://agroinnovations.com/index.php/en_us/multimedia/blogs/podcast/2008/05/open-farm-tech-with-marcin-jakubowski/

This challenges the entire centralized industrial production model and the debt slavery financial model that goes with it.

Nancy Reading

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Location: Isle of Skye, Scotland. Nearly 70 inches rain a year

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So these guys are doing something like Pearl's 'buy it once' company but for homesteading tools!

Here's a working youtube link:

And a bit about the project:
https://www.opensourceecology.org/gvcs/

It's not clear to me whether they are still ongoing though. They do seem to be funding some training apprenticeships (2025), but the machines projects seem stalled.

How Permies works: https://permies.com/wiki/34193/permies-works-links-threads
My projects on Skye: The tree field, Growing and landracing, perennial polycultures, "Don't dream it - be it! "

Willie Smits increased rainfall 25% in three years by planting trees. Tiny ad:

Learn Permaculture through a little hard work

https://wheaton-labs.com/bootcamp