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Open Source Agroecology (OSA) is an an open source collaborative development platform associated with the Open Source Ecology project and combines permaculture and open source equipment.

Open Source Agroecology is a system for carrying out agriculture where open source equipment is used to assist in integrated agriculture operations. It is an extension of permaculture which explicitly addresses the need for appropriate equipment in successful regeneration of food-producing systems.

The food infrastructure for a resilient community is dedicated to the provision of integrated food-fiber-fuel systems for advanced civilization and resilient communities and aims to demonstrate a best-practice system for feeding 100-200 people with a core team of 4 agricultural generalists, or Open Source Agroecologists. The difference between our work and other work on food systems is that we are interested in an explicit goal of :

1. a full-diet, local, year-round food system
2. economic feasibility for feeding 100-200 people with the stewardship of 4 people by using high, appropriate technology equipment
3. distributive economic nature of the venture – in that enterprise documentation and replication assistance for the enterprise is available.

We are proposing the integration of perennial agriculture, living gene bank, open source equipment, and agroecology – or what we call open source agroecology - towards a replicable package of providing healthy, local food for everybody. We propose community supported production as a means of linking the urban and rural landscapes in a mutual inter-independence for providing food, biofuels, lumber, and other products. Can this become a viable and mainstreamable model for providing needs from local resources? What items of local production can be included in this? If our program is insufficient, what are we missing?

Vision Statement

At Factor e Farm we aim to produce a template for a subsistent food system, that is replicable, scalable, and adaptive for anyone looking to live off of their land using low-cost materials and sustainable practices, enabling them to be autonomous in terms of food, fiber, and fuel.

See Also

• Community Gene Bank
• updates on agri-culture in the blog
• Open Source Ecology: Permaculture and Local Food Systems, worldtruthtoday.com (Broken)
• Video lecture by Marcin Jakubowski on truth11
• veggievigor.com - example of OSA