Welcome, @lizb! We’re having our monthly GOAT Community Call Feb 21 (third Wed of every month) at 9am PT, 12pm ET. Would you be able to make it? If so, perhaps we can do a collective brain dump of whatever folks know that’s going on in the ag hardware space in recent years. @julietnpn, @gbathree, or @paul121 might have some other ideas.
The other day @sezuco posted in the OpenTEAM Matrix room about this group designing open source mobile chicken coops that might be relevant:
It’s being led by a former apprentice at Wolfe’s Neck Center, so maybe you’re already familiar or in touch w/ someone there, but if not, I’m sure someone could connect you. Somewhat relatedly, a friend of mine from the Skywoman community open sourced the CAD drawings and parts lists for a chicken enclosure he designed with input from the poultry farmers channel in the Skywoman Discord.
Oh! Also @donblair is working on some cool farm sensor projects these days as Edge Collective.
💫 Bonus Fun Fact! 💫
Years ago a coworker of mine from GrowNYC attended an event where there some Farm Hack folks were tabling. They told me about it and I checked out the website and saw this cool project called farmOS. I started haunting the GitHub issue queue and so began my whole journey into the world of farmOS, GOAT, OpenTEAM, etc. So I’m very glad to see it getting a new lease on life!