Factor e Farm Site Plan

Site Plan from Site Mapping and GIS Workshop, July 2015

Site Plan

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  Factor e Farm (2012)

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  Factor e Farm Site Plan File:Siteplan.skp

Link

Agriculture Plan

See: Agriculture Plan 2013

Discussion

• Marcin:

Dan,

I just called - the soils map people referred me to http://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/WebSoilSurvey.aspx

I spoke to Jason Saunders. He said the above has 2009 or 2010 aerial photography. He said the USGS quarter quad shows images from about 2001, so he recommended just the online stuff.

Their number in the DeKalb County NRCS office is 816.449.2118.

Let me know what we still need.

I looked at the soils: here is the result: the border is our 30 acres:

http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Factor_e_Farm_Site_Plan

Marcin

• Dan

I understand you have a need for some discussion around the following:

• Small scale methane
• Single family and community sized constructed wetlands for domestic waste treatment and disposal
• Aquaculture/aquaponics
• water filtration and purification
• Small (1 acre) cattle and pasture development
• Land drainage and soil regeneration

Please bring along your USGS quarter quad from the local NRCS office. You can also get the soils map of the place there too. I have Kuchler and Bailey resources for potential natural vegetation for that location. We'll look at your bio-region as well.

Permaculture Site Plan Logistics

Permaculture is a ecological design methodology based on a set of core principles and values that Open Source Ecology shares. Its primary application is to generate best practices for environmental site analysis and ecological site plan design but is also used to design ecological systems in general.

• idea 1: host a permaculture course at the Factor e Farm and have the course practicum be a site plan for Factor e Farm
• idea 2: host an individual permaculture designer in exchange for food, board and fame
  • User:Liam.rattray volunteers to do conduct an on-site environmental analysis and provide a comprehensive site plan for FeF over a week from 3/20/10 to 3/28/10 in exchange for cooperation in constructing a modified CEB press.
• idea 3: send a Factor E Farm member to a PDC course to get Permaculture certified and do the site plan

Permaculture Teachers

• Peter Bane
• Wayne Weiseman: Midwest Permaculture
• Chuck Marsh
• Patricia Allen
• Bob Burns * Isabel Crabtree
• Penny Livingston
• Larry Santoyo

Online Resources

• FeF Integrated Development Strategy
• Permaculture Wiki
• Plants for a Future Database >7k species, lots edible perennials
• NewCrop Perdue's edible species profiles
• AgroForestryTree Database World Agroforestry Center's tree species profiles
• Forest, Farm, and Community Tree Network more agroforestry resources
• Food and Nutrition Library 2.2 lots of free e-books on food, nutrition, farming

FeF Environmental Site Analysis

Links

• Map on wikimapia - http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=39.863795&lon=-94.373540&z=17&m=b&show=/20957550/
• Agriculture_plan_2013 - begun in winter, 2012, in progress.
• FeF Master Plan