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We are enabling a radical decentralization of food production. Rather than growing food on large farms and shipping it to processing plants to be turned into mass-produced goods, we are giving people the tools to grow the food they need in their own backyard, balcony or local allotment. A food system characterized by centralized production and top-down distribution has led to a billion people being undernourished; decentralized food-production leads to equitable distribution of food. It also eliminates the need for transporting food, which inevitably involves some of it spoiling and also requires unnecessary expenditure of fuel and energy resources. | We are enabling a radical decentralization of food production. Rather than growing food on large farms and shipping it to processing plants to be turned into mass-produced goods, we are giving people the tools to grow the food they need in their own backyard, balcony or local allotment. A food system characterized by centralized production and top-down distribution has led to a billion people being undernourished; decentralized food-production leads to equitable distribution of food. It also eliminates the need for transporting food, which inevitably involves some of it spoiling and also requires unnecessary expenditure of fuel and energy resources. | ||
==Key Videos== | |||
* Fantastic and inspiring video of one man in India attempting to keep sustainable agriculture alive, rather than selling out to the corporations who destroy our ways of life and our planet. | |||
** [http://vimeo.com/16508587 Natabar Sarangi / The Source] on the [http://vimeo.com/channels/40086/ Socially Minded Documentaries] Vimeo channel. |
Revision as of 13:17, 28 February 2011
Control over one's food is indispensable to human dignity. We want to empower you to grow healthy, fresh, organic food in a way that is sustainable, easy and fun. To this end, we are collecting tools and know-how about different methods of producing food. Pick-and-mix according to your own needs, preferences and local opportunities and start building a food production system for your local community. We call it Open Source Agroecology: people providing people with the knowledge to sustainably grow their own food. No pesticide or fertilizer is needed, no ecosystems are harmed and the food grown will allow people to live in robust health.
We are enabling a radical decentralization of food production. Rather than growing food on large farms and shipping it to processing plants to be turned into mass-produced goods, we are giving people the tools to grow the food they need in their own backyard, balcony or local allotment. A food system characterized by centralized production and top-down distribution has led to a billion people being undernourished; decentralized food-production leads to equitable distribution of food. It also eliminates the need for transporting food, which inevitably involves some of it spoiling and also requires unnecessary expenditure of fuel and energy resources.
Key Videos
- Fantastic and inspiring video of one man in India attempting to keep sustainable agriculture alive, rather than selling out to the corporations who destroy our ways of life and our planet.
- Natabar Sarangi / The Source on the Socially Minded Documentaries Vimeo channel.
Subcategories
This category has the following 16 subcategories, out of 16 total.
Pages in category "Food and Agriculture"
The following 185 pages are in this category, out of 185 total.
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- Carbonized Chicken Feathers
- Cattails
- Cellulase Producing Bacteria
- Cellulose
- CharMaker MPP by EarthSystems
- Chicken
- Chinese Greenhouse
- Cinnamon
- Clean-In-Place
- Climate Battery
- CO2 Enrichment
- Community Apiary
- Community Garden
- Community Orchard
- Comparison of Till, Low-Till, and No-Till Farming Methods
- Compost Chicken on Steroids with Geoff Lawton
- Compost Chicken System
- Compost heating
- Compost Tea
- Compost Tea Brewer
- Compost Volatiles
- Connecting to Garden and Health via Bacteria
- Corn Smut
- Corn Stover
- Crop Desiccation
- Crop.zone
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- Factor e Farm Site Plan
- Farmbot
- Farmhack
- Fermentation
- Flame Weeding
- Fluoropolymers
- Fly Ash
- Food
- Food From Compost
- Food Localization Paper
- Foraging
- Forest Garden Greenhouse
- Fraction of all food plants that we eat
- Freeze Dried Fruit Powders
- French Intensive Gardening
- Fuel Crop
- Fuel vs Chemical vs Food Grade Alcohol
- Fufu Machine
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- Open Source Agroecology
- Open source crop planning software
- Open Source Dairy
- Open Source Dough Sheeter
- Open Source Honey Extractor
- Open Source Permaculture
- Open Source Seed Initiative (OSSI)
- Open-source biomass pyrolysis reactor, Woolf et al. 2017
- OpenPlant
- Organic No-Till
- Organoponic Raised Bed Gardening
- Organoponics