Date/Time:
May 16, 2025 - May 17, 2025
Calendar:
| Name of the event | Farm Hack Dinner – An Evening of Collaboration & Innovation |
| Organizer(s) | Farm Hack |
| Place | Tuckaway Farm, New Hampshire |
| Date(s) | May 16–17, 2025 |
| Purpose | To convene farmers, engineers, researchers, and community organizers for an evening of shared food, dialogue, and collaboration, exploring Farm Hack’s evolving role in agricultural innovation and digital public infrastructure. The theme was Collaborative Technology and Commons-Enabling Infrastructure. |
| GIAA organization(s) involved | Grassroots Innovation Assembly for Agroecology (GIAA), OpenTEAM, Farm Hack |
| Short writeup of activities and outcomes | The inaugural Farm Hack Dinner at Tuckaway Farm brought together a diverse group of practitioners and thinkers to reimagine collaborative agricultural innovation through open-source and commons frameworks. Participants co-prepared a communal meal, engaged in structured dialogues about the future of Farm Hack and its role in the broader ecosystem of agroecological innovation, and generated ideas for future gatherings and collaborative projects. The weekend continued with a broader Farm Hack Gathering featuring tool demonstrations, skill-building sessions, and opportunities for networking and co-creation. The event successfully rekindled the Farm Hack community’s momentum and set the tone for a new series of participatory, commons-oriented convenings. |