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Farm Hack

Also known as: FarmHack

An online community and platform for open-source farm tool design, founded in 2010 by farmers, engineers, and researchers in the United States to share farmer-developed tools, modifications, and innovations. The platform hosts hundreds of tool designs — manual, mechanical, electronic — contributed by working farmers, with documentation, photographs, build instructions, and discussion. Farm Hack is the principal community-driven open-source agriculture project in the United States and a structural inspiration for similar projects worldwide (L'Atelier Paysan in France, the GOAT community).

What it is

Farm Hack is a peer-to-peer online community where farmers post and share tool designs, modifications, and operational innovations under open-source licenses. [[0mn1one|The platform]]‘s principal artifact is a tool wiki with hundreds of entries — from simple hand tools (the Quick Cut Greens Harvester) to electronic instruments (the Photosynq leaf-fluorometer) to large equipment modifications.

Beyond [[0mn1one|the platform]], Farm Hack runs in-person events — hackathons on working farms where participants build, modify, and document tools together over a weekend. The events have shaped both the community and the catalog of designs.

Why it matters

Most farm tools are sold by manufacturers who do not share schematics, source code, or repair documentation. A broken proprietary tool is a tool the farmer cannot fix. Farm Hack reverses that posture: every design on [[0mn1one|the platform]] can be built, modified, repaired, and improved by anyone with access to the documentation. The result is a slowly-growing commons of farmer-validated tools that work for small and mid-scale agriculture in ways large-equipment makers do not serve.

For 0mn1.one’s [[mission-district-sf|mission]] of building infrastructure for worldwide abundance, Farm Hack is structurally aligned: it is the open-source-tools layer of the regenerative-agriculture movement.

See also

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  • Shares approach with: [[l-atelier-paysan]] · [[farmos]]
  • Member of: [[organization]]

Sources

  • farmhack.org
  • The New Farmer’s Almanac (Greenhorns)

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Cultural

shares approach with

  • FarmOS FarmOS emerged from the same farmer-developer-researcher community that built Farm Hack and the broader open-ag-tech movement
  • L'Atelier Paysan L'Atelier Paysan and Farm Hack are sister open-source-farming-tools movements — French and North American respectively — that exchange designs and contributors
  • Open Ag Tech Collective Farm Hack and the Open Ag Tech Collective overlap substantially in community and have run joint events

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