{"id":1212,"date":"2025-11-16T11:56:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T15:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/groundwk\/?page_id=1212"},"modified":"2025-11-16T12:12:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:12:40","slug":"tractor-small-engine-hand-tool-selection-use-maintenance-and-repair-for-small-farms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/groundwk\/for-new-farmers\/guides-on-equipment-for-beginning-farmers\/tractor-small-engine-hand-tool-selection-use-maintenance-and-repair-for-small-farms\/","title":{"rendered":"Tractor, Small Engine &amp; Hand Tool Selection, Use Maintenance and Repair for Small Farms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Georgia Organics hosted a series of workshops and developed several instructional videos, farm field days, and \u201chow-to\u201d publications to help fill critical knowledge gaps in farm tool use and selection, and farm production equipment maintenance. The resources, completed in 2024, are intended for small direct-to-consumer market farms (two and four cycle engines and hand tools) to larger, more mid-scale operations (ride-on tractors and attachments).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, a Farmer Toolkit Video Series was developed covering the following topics:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sare.us20.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=76cd8ae318dcb51ec0647e11d&amp;id=766e5db75e&amp;e=37ec8dc123\">Long-Handled Tool Selection<\/a>;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sare.us20.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=76cd8ae318dcb51ec0647e11d&amp;id=dd047a3b3a&amp;e=37ec8dc123\">Building Beds with Small Engine Implements<\/a>;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sare.us20.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=76cd8ae318dcb51ec0647e11d&amp;id=e5a9536bde&amp;e=37ec8dc123\">Favorite Tractor Implements for Transplanting<\/a>; and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sare.us20.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=76cd8ae318dcb51ec0647e11d&amp;id=b70e51f7a0&amp;e=37ec8dc123\">But First, Tractor Safety<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Available Educational Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sare.us20.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=76cd8ae318dcb51ec0647e11d&amp;id=cc4ff797e0&amp;e=37ec8dc123\">fact sheet<\/a>&nbsp;on tractor implements and their functions;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tractor implement and soil preparation&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sare.us20.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=76cd8ae318dcb51ec0647e11d&amp;id=0feb0f4cd1&amp;e=37ec8dc123\">handout<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sare.us20.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=76cd8ae318dcb51ec0647e11d&amp;id=0054ad6ce9&amp;e=37ec8dc123\">decision-making tool<\/a>&nbsp;for choosing the right tools for the farm;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Small engine troubleshooting&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sare.us20.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=76cd8ae318dcb51ec0647e11d&amp;id=580c13f759&amp;e=37ec8dc123\">guide<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The educational publications are also available in Spanish.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View Related SARE Grant:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sare.us20.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=76cd8ae318dcb51ec0647e11d&amp;id=66795bdecf&amp;e=37ec8dc123\">Tractor, Small Engine, and Hand Tool Selection, Use, Maintenance, and Repair for Small to Mid-Scale Sustainable Farms<\/a>&nbsp;(EDS22-39)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Organics hosted a series of workshops and developed several instructional videos, farm field days, and \u201chow-to\u201d publications to help fill critical knowledge gaps in farm tool use and selection, and farm production equipment maintenance. The resources, completed in 2024, are intended for small direct-to-consumer market farms (two and four cycle engines and hand tools) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/groundwk\/for-new-farmers\/guides-on-equipment-for-beginning-farmers\/tractor-small-engine-hand-tool-selection-use-maintenance-and-repair-for-small-farms\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tractor, Small Engine &amp; Hand Tool Selection, Use Maintenance and Repair for Small Farms<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":243,"featured_media":0,"parent":810,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1212","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P8hlBh-jy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/groundwk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/groundwk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/groundwk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/groundwk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/groundwk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/groundwk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1222,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/groundwk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1212\/revisions\/1222"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/groundwk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/groundwk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}