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Re:The fight over transparency in the meat industry by ldehaan on Thursday October 06, 2016 @03:12PM (#12655209)
Super cool! My family and I are also looking to buy a small farm and basically do the same thing, use it to provide good healthy food for our kids and hopefully at some point setup a program for other food conscious programmers and do a hackathon every couple months to improve on farming equipment.

Did you get a govt loan for your farm? If so did they require a certain amount of food to be sold or grown?

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Re:The fight over transparency in the meat industry by tjic on Thursday October 06, 2016 @04:06PM (#12655646)
No, I bootstrapped into a farm by being lucky enough to have bought a small house in Arlington, MA just before it hugely gentrified.

I sold a 1,500 square foot house on 0.1 acres of land and traded laterally into a 5,000 square foot house on 56 acres of land.

I've worked in tech for 25 years and never hit a good IPO; I guess this is my one big karma win!

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Re:The fight over transparency in the meat industry by jasonparallel on Thursday October 06, 2016 @03:57PM (#12655568)
I'm not sure if they are still active, but this group was hacking together some cool stuff for the farm: opensourceecology.org
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Re:The fight over transparency in the meat industry by jasonparallel on Thursday October 06, 2016 @06:56PM (#12656816)
Also check out farmhack.org/tools
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