farmhack

What is farmhack and what is it for?

FarmHack is a Holochain app that gathers farm tools, hacks and equipment ideas into a shared library a group can browse, add to and discuss. It carries the tool-sharing catalog of the FarmHack farming community into an app where that library is kept together by the people using it.

FarmHack comes from a website where farmers share the tools and hacks they build, mend and improve, and this repository carries that library into a Holochain app. The repository is titled "FarmHack Holochain Prototype", and a scraper inside it reads tool pages from farmhack.org, the community site that describes itself as a place for farmers, engineers and designers to retool farms with an open-source ethic. The app therefore starts from the community's existing catalog rather than from content invented for it.

In the app that catalog becomes a library a group keeps together. Each entry is a farm tool or hack with a title, description, build status, licence, tags, author, pictures, attached files and wiki-style notes, and comments left on the website come across as notes on the tool. The project's own development configuration describes the applet as a "collaborative farm tool library", and its interface is built with the same libraries Lightningrod Labs uses for its Moss group collaboration tooling.

A group could open the library, find a hack such as the electric egg washing machine, read how it was made, keep the plans or photographs alongside it, and add a note about their own build. The repository is the place to learn more: its README is only a title line, so the code, the scraper and the development configuration are currently the fullest description of what the app does.

From 7 public sources, checked 23 September 2026.