OFRF grants to fund your innovation

Posted by on November 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

  Get on it farmer inventors, farmer researchers, farmer questioning everythingers..  a grant to support your crazy experiment idea.   Organic Farming Research Foundation Is Accepting Grant Proposals Through November 19, 2012 Since 1990, Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF) has awarded hundreds of grants supporting exceptional research and education in organic farming. Organic farmers are some of the most innovative entrepreneurs in... Read More

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Seeking Farm Hack blog contributors!

Posted by on October 15, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

Have you ever built or retrofitted a tool or machine for your farm? Are you interested in on-farm innovation? Help share these stories with the young farmer community! Farm Hack, a project of NYFC in partnership with the Greenhorns is seeking contributing writers for the Farm Hack blog.  Farm Hack is a farmer-driven community to develop, document and build tools for resilient agriculture. We do this through in-person events and through our website.... Read More

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Meet Your Makers

Posted by on August 2, 2012 · 1 Comment 

Farmer and Farm Hack Intervale host Rob Rock is featured in an article in the independent publication Seven Days about the newly formed Vermont Makers community, a diverse group of farmers, programmers, educators, artists and others that are working to create organized meet-ups and work spaces for collaborative innovation.    Photo from www.7dvt.com (Matthew Thorsen) Meet Your Makers Vermont hackers, artists and inventors are sharing ideas... Read More

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