Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that’s only the first step in a project to write an instruction set for an entire self-sustaining village (starting cost: $10,000).
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The next GrowTavi will be on Tuesday 5th April 2011 at 2pm. The venue will be Buckland Abbey. Guestspeakers will include organic specialist Tom Petherick. There will also be a chance to tour the new work that the Buckland Food Group are doing with the National Trust….veg, pigs, fruit….(cider, we hope!!)
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Devon Community Learning Annual Conference 2010 – Friday 5 November, 9.30-3pm, Ockment Community Centre, North Street, Okehampton, Devon.
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New ‘Mend & Make New’ courses at the Duchy Square Centre for Creativity. Run by Lucie Ponsford, there will be three courses in February and March.
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