Part of being a soil nerd is about being a nerd in general. With a very solid background in Digital Technologies, we come out of the box with a slew of understanding about software from both strategic and practical levels. We utilize these open-source software platforms because it's free, it's open to the world to work with, and you can literally stuff your mattress with your own data.

Without Cloudflare as your first line of defense on the internet, you're waging a battle you probably won't win on your own. This so far is the only thing we are paying for and at 10 bucks a month for DNS and tunnel control and DoS-level protection, you can't go wrong.

pfSense is an industrial-strength software-based firewall, and network manager. It allows you to shape your network into layers of security and provide packet-based security across all 7 layers of the OSI networking model. Don't start a business using internet without one of these in front of you. The Community version is free.

Deploy commercial and industrial-level storage, server, virtualization, and cluster computing strength using standard computers and hardware. This is the proverbial mattress, that gets stuffed with all your data goodness. All of the things we talk about, we host, and it's hosted on a few of these rigs.

Jitsi Meet is a video conferencing platform that is a formidable open-source replacement for Zoom. At Soil Nerd we use it to host microscopy sessions where the user and the camera at the microscope stage is broadcasted online to video meeting sessions to discuss the Soil Food Web.

Mattermost is a collaboration platform for teams, to nurture group-led thought processes. Soil Nerd has used this to host a public forum for discussion in Regenerative Agriculture from any standpoint or application. Join us here.

Jitsi Meet is a video conferencing platform that is a formidable open-source replacement for Zoom. At Soil Nerd we use it to host microscopy sessions where the user and the camera at the microscope stage is broadcasted online to video meeting sessions to discuss the Soil Food Web.

A collaboration by several prominent Universities in Agriculture, FarmOs is based on Drupal CMS and is a very healthy step towards a useful farm records-keeping platform. Using various tools in geo-coordinates, this system allows you to keep asset records based on space, time, and usage.

WeeWx is a personal weather station server that connects to a huge array of cheap to expensive weather devices and allows you to customize the skin and data representation. Soil Nerd has tweaked this to be farm-centric and measure around the plant canopy for real-time crop weather.

GQIS is the GQ of GIS. Geospatial Information Systems are used by modern public record information in so much of the world. Use satellite tools and mapping to lay out your land and begin to apply maco-control on your operation. This is where you start if you want some form of automation.