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Post edited 1:49 pm – December 27, 2011 by Adam Lemieux

My name is Adam Lemieux. I am responsible for research and development of tools & supplies at Johnny's.

I want to congratulate Ben, Dorn and any others that were involved in launching this forum and also give them kudos for all the work they are doing at Farmhack. I am very excited to finally see people posting ideas in a forum setting like this. I think it is the perfect vehicle to share ideas and feedback.

Recently, I had the privilege of spending a couple days with a really great group of industry professionals at the Stone Barns Center with the similar intent of brainstorming scale-appropriate ideas for small commercial growers. We met the day after the Young Farmers Conference and called our meeting the Slow Tools Summit. I posted a trip report on my blog that also has an attached photo gallery. It can be viewed here: 

http://johnnystooldude.blogspo…..-slow.html

Hi, I'm Leanna Mulvihill. I'm an intern with the National Young Farmers' Coalition and organized Farmhack@ESF last fall. This May I'll be graduating from SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse with a degree in forest engineering.

My goal is to learn more about agriculture and bridge the gap between farmers and engineers.

This forums looks super useful and exciting. Thank you to everyone who put it together!

Hello, I am Jeremy Conyac. I operate Conyac Brothers Farmstead near Marysville, WA.  We raise pasture hogs including Hereford and Gloucestershire Old Spot breeds.  I also work as an organic farm inspector. 

Hi there everyone,

I'm Emily, and I'm an urban farmer living in South Minneapolis, MN these days. I'm originally from New Hampshire, but moved to Minnesota for college and accidentally fell in love with the place.

Before I graduated last May, I started a small urban farm with some other young folks, and we spent last season farming three vacant lots in residential neighborhoods. We grew veggies for a 17 member CSA and a small farmers' market. It was a good learning year, and three of us from that operation are continuing on next season, merging our farm with two other small urban farms to form a big, new, shiny venture called Stone's Throw Urban Farm. This year, we'll be growing for a 100-member CSA and a larger market, as well as some wholesale accounts. I'm the CSA manager.

I attended a Farm Hack event last November when I was visiting my folks in New Hampshire. I really loved the community and thought I could benefit a lot from being around smart, inventive farmer types. I love to farm and want to make it my livelihood for years to come, but mechanics and tools are not my strongest suit, so I'm excited to learn here. I'll also be spending a few hours every week this winter working on filling in this forum with useful information, so you'll see me around here a lot.

Cheers!

Hi Folks,

My name is Ryan. I'm an urban farmer in Little Rock, AR. I operate the Victory Garden Project, a 0.25 acre ubran micro-farm. I first heard about Farm Hack this weekend at the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group. My design interest is on tools and systems appropriate for small urban spaces.

Cheers!

Hello All!

My name is Kathy. I have a small farm in Waynesboro, Virginia in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley. My focus is on sustainable farming, being chemical free and getting back to basics. I generally refuse to "buy in" to the "need" for all kinds of expensive things to farm. I do operate on a small scale and I figure if they didn't need it 200 years ago, why would I need it now? I am a free thinker and I am always experimenting and coming up with new, low cost, sustainable solutions to make things easier.  My farm named "A Better Way", has many different meanings… a better way of living, a better way of doing things, a better path in this life's journey…  :)

Hey there,

My husband and I farm 70 acres in southwest colorado. We are Certified Naturally Grown and grow hay, vegetables, some livestock, chickens, and we have a farm-to-table restaurant in Cortez called The Farm Bistro.

Salad greens are our biggest market garden crop, and I'm in search of a small-farm-size mechanical harvester. Any ideas?

peace,

Laurie

Howdy Y'all.

I live and farm on the Eastern Shore of Virginia with my lovely partner Jeannie.  We have some hogs (Tamworth/Razorback), some laying hens (mixed flock) and are in the midst of putting up a hoop house.  We are new to having our own farm and are learning and doing a lot right now.  We will be planting our first crop soon as well as getting some bees.  We have a very low tech approach and are trying to get by without much equipment.  We are most likely getting some dairy cows this spring/summer.

John here from Broadturn Farm near Portland Maine. ( broadturnfarm.com ) 

Vegetable and flower csa farm; certified organic; about 9 acres in production. 

Looking forward to following new technology for small scale operations. I've got robots on the brain and I'm wondering why the pieces (all of which certainly exist) have not been put together for a small automated cultivator that runs night and day, eliminating soil compaction, heavy fuel usage, and the drudgery of hand-weeding/tractor driving.