Agroecotechnology

Nut Breeding Experiments

Published on: Jun 20, 2016 At open source ecology, we build open source industrial machines. We apply them to areas such as agriculture. On the agriculture front, we built our aquaponic greenhouse last year. We used this greenhouse to plant out 11,000...

Open Source Chicken Incubator – Working Prototype Complete

Last year, we have begun work on the automatic, open source chicken incubator – Hexahatch. It did not work well, primarily because the big rotor was too heavy. This year’s design – Hexahatch v2.0 – was changed to a simpler, still-air...

Open Source Tooth Bar Bucket: LifeTrac Sinks Its Teeth In the Ground

Digging with the tooth bar bucket on LifeTrac was a major success. We’ve already described the open source tooth bar in a previous post. Here is the tooth-barred bucket in action. We have fixed minor problems with LifeTrac, including a frame that...

Progress

Ecology and technology. The tractor is borne of plants and rock – transformed to rubber and steel. It’s munching up the soil – with the tiller. It is site preparation for the first Hexayurt – in minutes as opposed to 2 days with...