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*Closed loop systems
*Closed loop systems
*Permaculture
*[[Open Source Permaculture]]


=Objectives=
=Objectives=
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**Modular to promote scalability
**Modular to promote scalability
**Works in parallel with current resources, population size, product demand
**Works in parallel with current resources, population size, product demand
*[http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Open_Source_Permaculture#Why_this.2C_and_What.27s_.22food_swadeshi.22_anyway.3F Food swadeshi]: growing food for your own self-sustenance, for your community or for a "grow food locally" business.


=Food Swadeshi=
==Seasonal Data Points:==
[http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Open_Source_Permaculture#Why_this.2C_and_What.27s_.22food_swadeshi.22_anyway.3F Food swadeshi]: growing food for your own self-sustenance, for your community or for a "grow food locally" business.
 
Data Points: on the way to food swadeshi
*Summer, 2012 - FeF produces its own dairy, berries, grapes, 3 pears, a few pounds of apples, edible weeds (purslane, lambsquarter), chicory, mustard seed
*Summer, 2012 - FeF produces its own dairy, berries, grapes, 3 pears, a few pounds of apples, edible weeds (purslane, lambsquarter), chicory, mustard seed
*Fall 2012 - Dairy continues, grew lettuces, mustard greens, choy, turnips, arugula, radishes, spinach, swiss chard.  Harvested and processed rose hips, black walnuts, dandelion greens, wild arugula.
*Fall 2012 - Dairy continues, grew lettuces, mustard greens, choy, turnips, arugula, radishes, spinach, swiss chard.  Harvested and processed rose hips, black walnuts, dandelion greens, wild arugula.

Revision as of 20:39, 20 December 2012

Factor e Farm

Objectives

  • Full, year round diet for 12 people
  • Non-food products (fiber, medicine, fuel) sufficient for 12 people
  • Facilitate regenerative cycles that sustain themselves
  • Create a replicable, self-funded enterprise to sustain participants through transition towards complete self-sufficiency.

Conceptual Ideals

  • Closed loop systems
  • Permaculture
  • In alignment with OSE Specifications, Core Values, and
    • Flexible enough to be replicable across multiple regional climate and geography
    • Modular to promote scalability
    • Works in parallel with current resources, population size, product demand
  • Food swadeshi: growing food for your own self-sustenance, for your community or for a "grow food locally" business.

Seasonal Data Points:

  • Summer, 2012 - FeF produces its own dairy, berries, grapes, 3 pears, a few pounds of apples, edible weeds (purslane, lambsquarter), chicory, mustard seed
  • Fall 2012 - Dairy continues, grew lettuces, mustard greens, choy, turnips, arugula, radishes, spinach, swiss chard. Harvested and processed rose hips, black walnuts, dandelion greens, wild arugula.