Factor e Live – Part 3
This installment of Factor e Live focuses on LifeTrac – the open source, life-time, design-for-disassembly articulating multipurpose tractor/loader. It is the key to powering the CEB Press, permacultural operations, as well as: well-drilling, sawmilling,...
Well – Solar Turbine – LifeTrac Day 1
We have finally completed our water well-drilling adventure. Everything that could went wrong – amounting to a 2 month delay – but the bottom line is that we have a 4 inch-bore well that we estimate is giving us 1000 gallons of water per day...
On Progress
Here is an overview of our overall program of action: On the CEB Press for building – we are presently building the LifeTrac tractor – an agriculture, construction, and general utility device. This device is remarkably pedestrian in appearance...
Factor e Live
Change is continuous at Factor e Farm. You may have seen this post on how our place has evolved from a plain soybean field to rich diversity on many fronts. To record these changes as they happen, we have begun the Factor e Live series. These are videos,...
Agricultural Innovations Podcast
Last week, Frank Aragona from Agricultural Innovations published a podcast interview regarding some of our work at Factor e Farm. Agricultural Innovations is a research and consulting organization involved with biodiversity, fair trade, community supportecd...
Solar Conversion
Factor e Farm would like to announce that we are finally in the process of converting our operations from generator-based electricity to 100% solar electric. Thanks to Ronny’s behind-the-scenes work while he was with us this winter, we recently...
Global Swadeshi Dialogues
Yesterday, Vinay interviewed me for the first of the Global Swadeshi Dialogues weekly interview series. This interview is perhaps the most clear description to date of the essence of our experiments with Open Source Ecology, and its implementation lab...
First Year at Factor e Farm
It is interesting to reflect upon the changes that Factor e Farm has gone through in just one year. We started at Factor e with a clean slate: bare land – after its last ever soybean monoculture was harvested. Now the place looks a little different,...
Global Swadeshi
In the last century, Gandhi was recognized as the leader of swadeshi as a challenge to invading colonials. Swadeshi is a Sanskrit word for economic self-reliance. Vinay and Lindsay are now building Global Swadeshi – a social network, mainly engineers,...
On Biofuels
Today I had an interesting conversation with Fabio Barone, a Master’s of Science student in Holistic Science at Schumacher College. We discussed bioproducts – biofuels, bioplastics, and others – which are one of the keys to localization...
