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==Learning Plan==
==Learning Plan==
*One month
*One month
*Fabrication - weld + torch
*Fabrication - weld + torch - DONE
**Rationale: all skills required to fix a tractor or modify agricultural equipment
**Rationale: all skills required to fix a tractor or modify agricultural equipment - DONE
**10 hrs welding
**10 hrs welding - DONE
**10 hours torching
**10 hours torching - DONE
**Project ideas:
*Diagramming, graphics software - DONE
***mobile cow hut (use old truck bed?  or just the axel/wheel assembly?  plus scrap for walls and the spare silo roofing)
**Project ideas: sketchup site plan, preliminary designs for dairy milker & combine
***replicating [http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Open_Source_Tooth_Bar Open Source Tooth Bar] so we can use the bucket for digging
*Diagramming, graphics software
**Project ideas: sketchup site plan, preliminary designs for sorghum press & combine
*Three Months
*Three Months
**CAD up to Fabrication Drawings
**Site plan - DONE
**Sorghum press and Combine
**CAD up to Fabrication Drawings - DONE
**Dairy Milker and Combine - IN PROGRESS (12/12)


=Month 2=
=Month 2=

Revision as of 14:01, 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
  • 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 - DONE
    • CAD up to Fabrication Drawings - DONE
    • 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

Month 3