Time Session
11:30 pm Check-In/Registration
Coffee, Tea, Snacks – lunch will not be served
Visit with equipment vendors.
Bring tools in for sharpening – Michael’s Mobile Sharpening Service
12:00 pm Farming for Life – Ergonomics Class with Green Heron Tools – 45 minute session
A healthy body helps you live the life that you want and farm for as long as you want and need to. This
interactive program will focus on choosing & using tools — and using your own body — in ways that minimize
injuries and pain and help keep you healthy despite the inherent risks in farming.
12:45 pm Break – Coffee, Tea, Snacks
1:00 pm Tool Maintenance and Sharpening – Josh Volk of Slow Hand Farm – 45 minute session
Basic concepts and techniques for making your farm hand tools work their best and last a long time. Josh will
show the techniques he has been using for the last 20 years for sharpening knives, hoes, pruners and others
on the farm, without power tools, and his approach to keeping wooden handles in good shape and
comfortable to use.
1:45 pm Break- Coffee, Tea, Snacks
2:00 pm Equipment Demonstrations – Select a demo for each time slot. See tools in action and try them out.
Time Carts–n-Tools BCS America Johnny’s Tools
2:00 – 2:20 pm Equipment Demonstrations – Select a demo for each time slot. See tools in action and try them out.
2:20 – 2:30 pm Break
2:00 – 2:50 pm Equipment Demonstrations – Select a demo for each time slot. See tools in action and try them out.
2:50 – 3:00 pm Break
Time Carts–n-Tools BCS America Johnny’s Tools
3:00 – 3:30 pm Tillie (electric tiller)– soil
mulching, hilling
732 BCS tractor – rotary
plow, 32” flail and tiller
Cultivating Tools:
Hoes / Hand Tools,
Grass Stitcher, Wheel Hoe and Attachments
3:45 pm DIY Seed Cleaning Equipment Demo – Allen Dong of I Tech Designs – 45 minute session
Make your own tools for small-scale farms and gardens.
This session present designs for grain thresher, winnower, screen seed
cleaner and vacuum seed storage system. All I Tech designs and inventions
are public domain.
4:30 pm Break – Appetizers and Beverages
4:45 pm Equipment Showcase and Panel Discussion – 1 hour 15 min session
Farmer Panel will start off by sharing some of their own equipment innovations and/or favorite tools and
then open the floor for you to share yours. Allen Dong (I Tech Designs) will be sharing his solar food dryer
design; Josh Volk (Slow Hand Farm) will share his hand carts; and Jeremy Mueller (Excelsior Farm and
Johnny’s Tools) will share his flame weeder. Please bring in tools, pictures and stories of your own equipment
innovations as well as your challenges and ideas for equipment that would help improve the efficiency of
your farm operation. OSU Engineering students will be attending and listening to your ideas to inspire their
senior projects.
6:00 pm Adjourn