Impressions from the first UK FarmHack
Last month CropShare volunteers Ben, Reggie and Axel attended the first FarmHack event in the Uk, at the lovely Ruskin Mill in Gloucestershire. Here’s a collection of inspiring blog posts, galleries and tweets about the weekend:
Inspirational day at #farmhack On Your Farm Farm Hack on @BBCRadio4 coming soon. I need broad fork for my allotment!! pic.twitter.com/YIlUOTWY6y
— Sybil Ruscoe (@SybilRuscoe) April 19, 2015
UPDATE: And here’s a link to the aforementioned programme – it even features CropShare’s very own Ben:
A report from the UK’s first Farm Hack, an initiative from the USA to help smaller farms.
Source: BBC Radio 4 – On Your Farm, Farm Hack UK
@Feelsgoodtoeat did an amazing job at explaining what FarmHack is all about, together with gorgeous pictures:
Last weekend I attended a rather unusual festival. The venue was a large field and various other parts of a farm – nothing so unusual about that…
Source: Farmhack Launch – Festival for All! | Abundance Garden
Cycle powered grain mill at #FarmHack. Built in 4 months by product design under-graduate pic.twitter.com/pAHfP4uuhH
— Dazinism (@Dazinism) April 18, 2015
A great photostory in two parts by @IndieFarm:
The Landworkers Alliance held the first ever Farm Hack event outside of north America at Ruskin Mill Farm, Gloucestershire. The event brought together over 100 farmers, growers, fab
Source: FARM HACK at Ruskin Mill – Day 1 – Indie Farmer
Farm Hack at Ruskin Mill Farm Day 2 was all about open space discussion and capturing lessons learnt and planned actions from Saturday’s workshops and seminars.
Source: FARM HACK at Ruskin Mill Farm – Day 2 – Indie Farmer
Hoover seedthreshing machine @LandworkersUK @greenhorns inspired #farmhack uk. Cheap to make. My kind of vacuuming. pic.twitter.com/Qx9YGvp4r2
— Alice Belle Holden (@AliceBHolden) April 21, 2015
A great Flickr gallery by Severine of The Greenhorns in the US: https://www.flickr.com/photos/thegreenhorns/sets/72157651718162527/
Folk literally hanging from the rafters at Ruskin Mill as Fergus @CommonGoodFood demos the mill bike #farmhack pic.twitter.com/jrDX7lq8K9
— Mags Hall (@MagsSGP) April 20, 2015
Lovely pictures and writeup by @ClemSandison:
Still not had enough? Check out our own FarmHack picture gallery here!
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