Farming plays a significant role in the economy by supporting related industries such as food, retail, and local services. Community-based small farms, while offering unique social and cultural benefits, face persistent challenges, including limited access to formal education and underdeveloped infrastructure, which have been discussed in prior research. This study focuses on community-driven factors, such as workarounds for recording critical information and practices for passing down farming knowledge across generations. Through 11 semi-structured interviews with farmers from a small ethnic community, the Hmong, we explore how bonding social capital, rooted in close family and community ties, supports informal knowledge exchange and creates pathways to bridging and linking capital. These relationships help farmers connect to broader networks, resources, and institutions. Our findings highlight opportunities for designing technologies that support and strengthen existing support systems. We discuss how technologies should be designed to reflect the cultural values, unique practices, and intergenerational relationships embedded in community-based farms.

翻译：农业通过支持食品、零售和地方服务等相关产业，在经济中发挥着重要作用。社区型小型农场虽能提供独特的社会文化效益，却长期面临正规教育渠道有限、基础设施不完善等持续挑战，这些问题已在先前研究中得到讨论。本研究聚焦社区驱动的因素，例如记录关键信息的变通方法，以及跨代传承农耕知识的实践。通过对苗族小型族群社区11位农民进行的半结构化访谈，我们探讨了植根于紧密家庭与社区联系的纽带型社会资本如何支持非正式知识交换，并创造通向桥梁型与链接型资本的路径。这些关系帮助农民连接更广泛的网络、资源和机构。我们的研究结果凸显了通过技术设计来支持并强化现有支持体系的机遇。我们讨论了技术设计应如何体现社区农场蕴含的文化价值观、独特实践与代际关系。