Neosubsistent Agriculture Model

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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.