Are you interested in growing your own food at home, but unsure of how to get started? Do you want to create a sustainable home farm that is both productive and environmentally friendly? Look no further!

In this exciting presentation, we will be exploring the amazing potential of using your dev skills in C# and .NET, using .NET Nanoframework on microcontrollers (ESP32) and the cloud to create a sustainable home farm. By leveraging the power of these technologies, you can optimize your home farm for maximum productivity, sustainability and power efficiency. But best of all not have it be a full time job to maintain as a home farmer.

Join me on my journey of builidng my own farm at home and I will cover my experiences and everything needed to build a ruggedized, weather-proof, outdoor farming system: powered by the sun and irrigated by rainwater.

This talk will cover what I've personally done and learnt by building my own home farm and how I built a mini farming system to grow my own produce. The talk will cover accessible programming for microcontrollers using c# and .net nanoframework, some .NET MAUI, BLE, practical electronics (and how to have it survive the elements of outdoors) and home automation The talk will also cover the practical aspects of growing seeds, and the actual growing of the plants and custom irrigation systems. Some content created on the topic can be found here: https://explorationspace.co.za/