Refarm the city: open source tools for urban farmers

Hernâni Dias and his collective from re:farm the city want to make sure that the world's next generation of urban farmers have the tools to create a 21st Century urban farm. Their open source tools are published on a wiki and they including hardware (the urban farm, the composter, the electronics, the sensors, recycled materials) and software for designing, controlling and monitoring the farm.
Original story here: http://faircompanies.com/videos/view/refarm-city-open-hardware-software-for-u...

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[DiederikPolydore]

Again a fantastic video. Thanks for all your hard work!

[inof8or]

@vention4wh I get the impression that he is thinking bigger then his deck garden or even just the process of watering. Remote monitoring, care management just a couple of things I can think of off the top of my head that would help at scale. Maybe too much for an individual I agree, but think about a community garden.

When you can find the plans online you dont have to be an engineer, not too complicated, someone else already figured it out.

[TheIvomendonca]

Mais um tuga

[canuckartist]

Very interesting. It's a little more high tech than I'm used to, but then, I'm a rural gardener with lots of land and water resources to draw on... This control system would be a fantastic thing to organise an aquaculture setup... makes ya think. There's no reason why we should step back technology wise, let's make use of our modern knowledge to upgrade traditional organic gardening systems. Makes sense to me!

[RealityCheck05]

Slick setup!

[RealityCheck05]

@glpiv7 Why?

[glpiv7]

 I hope they don't get a sensor for pesticides.

[onedollarjuggalo]

just use blumats

[vention4wh]

@inof8or

Oh, I think I get where you're coming from. His system would make more sense for a community garden, as you said.

[srvvlhm]

That was beautiful.