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Hacking the Plough

CIMMYT via Flickr Creative Commons

Produced with Zach Nugent

The community-based organization Farm Hack brings together innovative farmers, technology designers, and hackers to approach agricultural challenges without the top-down energy-intensive tools used in mainstream mega-farming. Farm Hack uses both online and face-to-face meetings to encourage and share  creative methods among small farms all over the country. Ben Shutejoins us, he is a New York state farmer and co-founder of Farm Hack.

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