Neosubsistent Agriculture Model

Factor e Farm

• Closed loop systems
• Permaculture

Objectives

• produce food, fiber, medicine, fuel, and other resources for 30 humans
• facilitate regenerative cycles that sustain themselves

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.