farmOS Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• What farming tech/apps do you use?

  We use FarmOS for tracking daily activity, livestock, and equipment on our small farm. Super handy for keeping seeding, harvesting, composting data for later analysis Https://farmos.org/. Source: about 2 years ago

• I asked this in Facebook Groups about Record keeping in Farming...

  So the solution you may not want to read but is by far the best current no cost option is FarmOS. If you’re not at all tech savvy you can pay for a hosted setup, otherwise it runs on just about any 10 year old cast off computer. Infinitely better than a word doc lol. You can match your records to geospatial data and bring in data from weather stations, moisture sensors, pH sensors, livestock rfid etc all... Source: over 2 years ago

• Open Nutrient Project is an new free open source tool to help organic gardeners make better decisions about the plants they choose for there inputs for KNF, Composting, JADAM, and more. Plants sorted by avg mineral content of a given nutrient along with test recommendations and much more.

  Glad to see this project. Any thought to rolling it under FarmOS? https://farmos.org/ They have a lot of momentum on the open source movement. Source: over 2 years ago

• Self hosted farming/gardening?

  Have you looked at FarmOS? Https://farmos.org/. Source: over 2 years ago

• Linux Foundation starts landmark open source agtech project AgStack

  Along the same lines, there is https://farmos.org/ It is a kind of like a CMS/ERP for agtech. I am using it for basic farm management purposes like inventorying equipment, chemicals, etc. It is built on Drupal which I personally do not like. Overall, the open source nature of the project allows anyone to contribute new modules. I was building my own app before I found it and am glad it's one less project I have to... - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• What are your opinions/advice?

  With that said, this is NOT the only job out there. Funny enough, I have actually been researching open source farming for a project I'm going to work on with some friends, and there are a few open source projects out there. FarmOS does open source web-based farm management and FarmBot is an open source farm robot. If you get involved with either of these projects, you could learn a lot of useful skills and make... Source: over 3 years ago