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Revision as of 14:12, 1 December 2012
Month 1
Abstract: First month involves creating a detailed site survey + general land stewardship plan (Site Plan). It also involves startup of a summer garden and beginning of responsible animal husbandry - starting with dairy cows in a mob grazing scenario. Documentation work involves creating a resource list of local agriculture stock + skill resources. Learning involves basic fabrication up to the skills required to maintain and modify tractor and implements.
Tasks:
- Maintain Factor e Farm Agriculture Resources wiki page
- Take charge of organizing ag tools
- Gabi Shopping List for manual and powered tools
- Create a Factor e Farm Agriculture Resources wiki page
- Create a Management Plan for Dairy Cow by Saturday standup meeting
- Include materials, costs, ergonomics of milking and pasture, health, grazing plan, shelter, scale, milking infrastructure, reproductive timeline, food supplements, medicine
- Budget and sourcing of stock and materials
- Survey - 2 weeks
- Conversation with Dan Shellenberg - Saturday - sourcing equipment + basics of technique
- Review the online video, post on, and create Surveying 101 wiki page
- Source open source GIS and mapping software
- Pasture, berming, long term planting (hazelnuts + chestnuts) ponds master plan
- Garden Plan
- Review Monday standup meeting
Learning Plan
- One month
- Fabrication - weld + torch - DONE
- Rationale: all skills required to fix a tractor or modify agricultural equipment - DONE
- 10 hrs welding - DONE
- 10 hours torching - DONE
- Diagramming, graphics software - DONE
- Project ideas: sketchup site plan, preliminary designs for dairy milker & combine
- Three Months
- Site plan - File:Siteplan.skp
- CAD up to Fabrication Drawings - sketchup learned, but still would like to learn AutoCAD
- Dairy Milker and Combine - IN PROGRESS (12/12)
Month 2
Month 2 involves continuation of agriculture operations, to be determined in detail after results of month 1.
- Propose a replicable, economic sustainability model for Factor e Farm Neosubsistence Agricultural operations
- Produce a Vision Statement for Factor e Farm open source agroecology
10 month plan