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The Right Tool for the Job
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Tools are now and have always been vital to farming: They’re how we interact with the land to get things done. Whether it’s a stirrup hoe or a cultivating tractor, our favorite tools become extensions of our bodies, as we use them again and again. We farmers have a very interesting relationship with our tools.…
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CoolBot Enables Small Farmers to Build Do-it-Yourself Coolers
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Like many small-scale vegetable growers, Anton Burkett couldn’t afford a large, expensive walk-in cooler compressor to cool his produce before market. Then he found the CoolBot. When he started Early Morning Farm near Ithaca, N.Y. in 1999, he built a small, eight foot by ten foot walk-in cooler powered by a small refrigerator compressor. With…
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ZEA2™: Changing the Way We Grow Food
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I’m an architect working with a team of scientists and engineers to develop a type of Controlled Environment Agriculture that we are calling ZEA2™. The name might look like an algebra formula to you, but what it stands for could revolutionize the sustainable farming movement. “Zero Energy Agriculture Squared” refers to a special greenhouse now…
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Do-it-Yourself Farm Fixes
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Springtime is just around the corner, with the hustle-bustle of warm weather activity and a chance to hop-to on your long list of outdoor tasks. These last few weeks of winter have us all peeking anxiously out windows, looking for the first break in the weather, and tapping our toes with impatience. However, it can…
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