This tool-lending library brings the sharing economy out of the city and onto the farm

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By Darby Minow SmithNov 4, 2014, 8:21 pm20 pts
You might associate the sharing economy with Uber and San Francisco, but there’s a version of the sharing economy more productive than that barely regulated $362 Halloween cab ride: farming equipment. Instead of shelling out big bucks for specialized machinery, food producers in Maine can now join a lending…

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