OPEN CALL · OPEN TRIBE
Let’s build the best tech-enabled ranch together.
We don’t have all the answers — and that’s exactly why you’re invited. As a tribe we’ll identify, build and apply the best technologies to the land. Farmers, ranchers, beekeepers, engineers, scientists, makers. Whoever brings work, land or knowledge joins the tribe; so does whoever sustains the cycle by buying the manuals. What we discover stays within the tribe.
WHY TOGETHER
The best tech-enabled ranch isn’t bought.
It’s built together.
Big consultancies sell the complete solution, in technical jargon, at a price that doesn’t pay off for a small or mid-size producer. And often the solution was designed for another latitude, another scale, another problem.
What actually works: a tribe of people who know the land from the inside, put their plot up as a lab, share what they learn and build technology sized for whoever’s going to use it. That’s what we do here.
HOW WE COOPERATE
Three steps. Same language. Same soil.
It’s not a course or a closed consortium. It’s an open cycle that repeats every season, and anyone can enter at any step.
01
Identify
Each member brings their real pains: the water that runs off, the pest that arrived too late, the energy that eats the profits. In open sessions we choose together which problems to tackle first — the ones that hurt the most people most.
Workshops · Forums · Anonymous surveys
02
Create
We design prototypes: a homemade sensor, a frugal AI model, a water-catchment system, a grazing protocol. We document in the open how it was done and what it cost. The golden rule: it has to be replicable by a person without a graduate degree.
Field hackathons · Open repos · CC documentation
03
Apply
We test on real plots — our own and those of anyone willing to offer theirs as a lab. We measure, adjust, report what failed. What works gets published for free. What doesn’t, too: learning in public is part of the craft.
On-site pilots · Monthly reports · Iterative tweaks
WHO JOINS?
You, if you have something to bring.
Even just one thing.
You don’t have to be a jack-of-all-trades. Everyone contributes what they know and takes away what they learn. The tribe is horizontal: the farmhand with 30 years of craft counts as much as the engineer with a PhD.
Farmer / rancher
Your plot is your lab. Your craft is the most valuable data there is. Bring what you already know works.
Beekeeper / worm farmer
Raising productive insects: your experience is rare and critical. We need you.
Engineer / technician
Irrigation, energy, automation, agronomy. Bring your feet on the ground and the prudent solution.
Developer / data scientist
AI, sensors, dashboards. Build sized for the real user, not the paper.
Researcher / scientist
Universities, research centers, agronomists. Bring method and rigor.
Curious about the craft
You’re none of the above yet, but the land is calling you. Start by listening.
ecoAlarife
Brief
ecoAlarife
What the tribe has discovered · farms, irrigation, energy, livestock, frugal AI and productive insects
Tribe only.
Only for those who sustain the cycle.
NEXT EDITION · WAITLIST
Brief ecoAlarife
We’re preparing the next edition of the Brief — the tribe’s internal dossier with everything we discover plot by plot. Join the waitlist and we’ll let you know when it’s ready.
JOIN
Tell us who you are
and what you bring to the table.
This isn’t a waitlist or a newsletter. Every sign-up is read by a person. If you fit the current cycle, we’ll invite you to the next session. If not, we’ll let you know when something opens up for your profile.
We’ll get back to you as soon as we can. Please be patient — there are many requests.