The Programmable Farm

Open draft. This book is in progress and the chapters are still being revised. Feedback shapes the next revision: [email protected]

The book · Open draft

The Programmable Farm

Open Tools, Climate Chaos, and Who Gets to Grow Food

This is an open draft of a book in progress. The chapters are complete enough to read and still being revised: openings and arguments are being reworked between passes, some quoted material is still awaiting confirmation, and the last chapters are the newest. Nothing here is final.

Feedback now shapes the next revision. The most useful place to aim it is the questions each chapter ends with, along with anything that reads wrong, reads unclear, or is missing. Write to [email protected]. A note naming the chapter is enough.

Draft of 29 September 2026 · 16 chapters and an appendix · 54k words

Contents

  1. IntroThe oldest idea8 min
  2. 01Kitchen weather13 min
  3. 02Eyes in the sky13 min
  4. 03The herd tells you first13 min
  5. 04Fencing becomes software12 min
  6. 05Water knows15 min
  7. 06Somebody else's ingredient16 min
  8. 07The repair shop15 min
  9. 08Two doors20 min
  10. 09Whose data, whose rules15 min
  11. 10Farming through the storms17 min
  12. 11Six gates16 min
  13. 12Everyone has a farmer in their background16 min
  14. 13Built for one farm14 min
  15. 14Learn to do by doing17 min
  16. 15Program the farm or the farm will program you16 min
  17. AppendixTalking to yourself11 min

The wider project, its stake, and the languages it is published in are on the project page.