Autofarmation.
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The Autofarmation Guide

One big, comprehensive guide — seven parts, fifty-some chapters, four appendices, and one rule. Every chapter runs the same honest shape: the old way with its real numbers, the build with its parts list and wiring, and what it won’t do — because a guide that never says “no” is selling you something.

Read a full chapter free → The Freezer That Cries for Help — a $12 build against a freezer full of beef.

Part IThe Iron
  • The tractor you already have — what's steerable, from a 1952 Ford to a new compact
  • The straight furrow — what guidance is worth on five acres
  • The $1,200 autosteer — the full build, every part priced, every wire shown
  • Centimeter truth for free — RTK from your state, or a base station you own
  • Where the tractor went — coverage maps as the new farm journal
  • The iron's own ledger — hour meter to oil-change alert
  • What this will not do — the safety chapter; you stay in the seat
A restored 1948 Ford 8N tractor
Part IIThe Water
  • Finding water honestly — well logs, geology, and what the dowsers got graded
  • The spring, developed — and a sensor that knows its yield by month
  • Moving water without power — the ram pump, built for about $150
  • Moving water with sunshine — solar pumps sized honestly
  • Rain, roofs, and the first flush — automated
  • The tank that reports — levels, freeze alarms, leak math
  • The well, watched — a dying pump announces itself
  • Keeping it sweet and safe — what a charcoal filter does not remove
A weathered oak rain barrel with a watering can
Part IIIThe Ground
  • The February pencil, computed — the free calculator on this site, in full
  • Soil that reports — plant when the probe says 45° four inches down; sprinklers that defer to the rain
  • Water that minds itself — the $150 irrigation brain
  • The frost alarm — wakes you at 34°, not at sunrise
  • The greenhouse that tends itself — including the vent opener that needs no electricity at all
  • The compost pile, thermometered — 131° and the pathogen kill
  • The orchard's calendar — degree-day pest timing from your own weather
  • The trees that earn their keep — moringa and the other one-plant pantries, graded honestly for your zone (and your windowsill)
  • Seed saving, tracked — isolation distances and a generation ledger
A raised bed full of lettuces in bright sun
Part IVThe Stock
  • The flock that runs itself — a coop door that opens on the sun, water that never freezes
  • The brooder, held steady — chick temperatures by the week, not by guess
  • The incubator — temperature, humidity, turning: hatching is pure automation
  • Eggs by the numbers — what supplemental light buys, and what it costs the hen
  • The home dairy, honest math — the twice-a-day sentence, and how the wires shorten it
  • The milking machine and the cold chain — a small vacuum milker, milk chilled fast, butter
  • Fence, tank, and pasture — voltage monitors, stock-tank sensors, rotation reminders
  • The rest of the small stock — rabbits and bees, graded honestly
A white hen on green grass under tree shade
Part VThe Keep
  • The breathing cellar — 34° and 92% humidity, held by a fan and a $15 sensor
  • Dry until done, provably — the jerky tells you when it's done
  • Smoke, held steady — the smokehouse thermometer that texts
  • The cure chamber — an old fridge, a $35 controller, and the real brine numbers
  • The crock, kept — fermentation temperatures and the salt percentages that work
  • The jar ledger — altitude-true canning times, batch labels, dates
  • The pantry that counts itself — rotation, inventory, par levels
  • The freezer that cries for help — a $10 sensor against a freezer full of beef
A year of winter squash spread across a floor
Part VIThe Light
  • What the farm's nervous system eats — honest power math, watt-hours and winters
  • Sun in a box — solar and battery for the far sensors, sized without wishful thinking
  • The generator that starts itself — auto-start, transfer, and the fuel log
  • Word when the wires are down — mesh text radio, farm to farm, no cellular, no account
A worn pressure lantern glowing in low evening sun
Part VIIThe Brain
  • The farm network — Wi-Fi where there's power, long-range radio for the far fields; zero internet required
  • Notifications that never leave the property — every phone on the farm, cloud-free, even offline
  • One box, no cloud — every sensor reports to a shelf in your shop
  • Watchdogs everywhere — the whole book on one screen: freezer, cellar, tank, fence, coop, smokehouse
  • Your own weather — the station that feeds the frost alarm and the rain-skip
  • The farm that talks — ask your own records a question
  • The farm that pays you back — the self-serve stand, counted and watched
  • Eyes on the rows — where camera guidance really stands (honestly)
  • When the power blinks — what runs on battery, what reboots itself
  • Keeping your own ledger — teaching a child something that takes years
  • What I still cannot do — the closing chapter
A handwritten 1868 farm journal page

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