Neosubsistent Agriculture Model

Factor e Farm

• Closed loop systems
• Permaculture

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

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
• 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.