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This is our strategy for creating open source permaculture local food systems including plants and open source technology for low cost high appropriate tech self-sufficiency.
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A
Welcome
to
factory
live
distillation,
x'
part,
seven
on
the
local
food
systems.
Here's
a
little
story.
What
we
did
so
far.
What
did
we
learn
and
where
are
we
going
supporting
supporting
links
are
in
the
blog
text.
We
started
with
urban
agriculture
on
the
streets
of
Madison
Wisconsin
I,
learned
that
when
you
put
seeds
in
the
ground
and
you
have
soil,
things
will
grow
and
produce
abundantly.
A
We
went
on
to
a
five
acre
plot,
which
we
found
by
knocking
on
somebody's
door
and
asking
by
the
way
you
can
do
this.
Typically
for
free
on
the
outskirts
of
most
cities,
we
learned
about
weeds
and
equipment.
Weeds
will
knock
out
your
crops
very
easily
and
that's
where
most
of
the
challenge
to
easy
living
exists.
We
nonetheless
got
tons
of
squash
literally
and
plenty
of
tomato
carrot
and
others.
We
did
not
know
what
to
do
with
it.
A
Most
of
our
crop
went
to
waste
first
by
weeds
and
second,
we
found
that
she
also
need
to
market
your
wares.
We
even
bought
an
antique
pool
behind
combine,
we
harvested
harvested
some
beans,
but
the
combine
broke.
We
fixed
it.
It
broke
again
and
we
sold
it
on
eBay
for
50
bucks.
We
also
harvested
apples
and
made
certified
open
source
applesauce
for
local
coops.
The
business
model
worked,
but
with
three
apples
from
a
supportive
farmer.
A
The
next
experiment
was
hydroponics,
the
promise
of
outstanding
yields
on
amazingly
small
space.
The
amazing
figures
are
true.
For
example,
if
you
grow
lettuce,
you
can
get
$1
per
square
foot
per
week.
An
acre
of
that
gives
you
over
1
million
dollars
per
year.
Compare
that
to
two
hundred
dollars
per
acre
on
row.
Crop
only
trick
is
the
1
million
dollars
is
super
intensive
factory
farming.
It
does
happen,
but
is
not
direction.
Not
it's
not
the
direction
we
want
to
go.
A
We
grew
beautiful
lettuce
with
economics
similar
to
the
above
on
the
scale
of
a
few
growing
tubs.
It
grew
amazingly
fast.
We
took
it
to
market
once
sold
out
in
a
second
made,
a
hundred
bucks.
We
got
it
ready
to
scale
up,
but
thrips
wiped
out
the
entire
second
crop.
The
lessons
so
far,
things
grow
and
grow
in
abundance.
It's
easy
to
manage
weeds
or
pests
on
a
small
scale,
but
if
you
go
larger
mechanic,
mechanizations
and
pests
play
the
dominant
role.
Plus
equipment
is
expensive
and
it
breaks.
A
So
it's
almost
impossible
to
run
never
mind,
replicate
a
diversified
operation
from
seed
to
value-added.
Thus,
local
food
supply
chains
are
a
fringe
phenomenon.
Today,
our
present
plan
is
a
combination
of
tree
crop.
Organa
panic
raised
beds,
perennial
vegetables
and
herbs
wildcrafting,
our
heirloom
vegetables,
intercropping
nursery
and
gene
Bank
to
reproduce
and
breed
all
of
the
above,
along
with
chickens,
goats,
bees,
worms,
bats
and
fish,
backed
up
by
open
source
scalable
equipment
at
the
unit
of
40
acres
scale
for
field
post
harvest
and
value-added
production.
A
Basically,
our
place
is
on
its
way
to
becoming
an
edible
landscape
for
human
and
animal
alike,
we'd
like
to
show
easy
100
percent
food
sustainability
for
our
20
to
30
person,
crew
that
we
aim
to
assemble
by
the
end
of
this
year.
In
fact,
our
major
goal
is
to
build
an
open-source
combine
for
grains
and
beans,
plus
high
equipment
for
the
animals
and
a
one
acre
fuel
grass
crop,
plus
the
aquaponic
bio
panic
system.
A
We're
also
aiming
to
produce
micro
life
track
the
two-wheel
walk-behind
version
of
the
bigger
open-source
tractor.
This
therefore
ties
into
a
beautiful
food
fuel
combined
heat
and
power,
gasifier
biochar,
solar
power
and
biofuel
package.
Nick's
got
the
combined
heat
and
power
gasifier
scheme
engine
I'm
on
top
of
the
solar,
concentrators
and
others
are
needed
for
biofuel.
Pyrolysis
oil
combine
hanging
equipment,
general
agricultural
operations.
Jeremy's
got
the
sawmill,
that's
part
of
our
lumber
production
for
modular
housing
units
as
part
of
our
Agri
forestry
action.
A
A
Foraging
kind
of
we
highly
integrated
agro
ecosystems
and
edible
landscapes
with
a
foundation
in
perennial
agriculture
start
with
staples
mark
shepherd
of
new
forest
farms,
along
with
a
number
of
others
like
badger,
set
farms
and
IKOS
tree
crops
are
breeding
hazelnuts
and
chestnuts
as
a
potentially
mainstream
Abul,
perennial
agroforestry
alternative
to
corn
and
soybeans
the
monoculture.
That
is
the
basis
for
u.s.
agriculture.
A
Hazelnuts
contain
a
protein.
That's
soybeans,
provide
and
chestnuts
provide
the
carbohydrates
that
corn
provides
plus
the
lamb
Institute
is
developing
perennial
grains,
though
none
of
them
is
being
grown
commercially
as
a
food
source
established
the
above,
add
an
orchard
and
berries
mix
and
perennial
vegetables
in
an
understory
and
in
the
five-year
period.
Your
plot
of
land
gives
you
staple
food
forever
from
trees
that
can
literally
shower
you
with
food,
as
opposed
to
you
having
to
do
annual
field
crops
year
after
year.
Animals
can
graze
in
between
in
select
areas.
A
The
orchard
and
nursery
are
another
key
include
propagation
capacity,
cuttings,
missed
propagation
and
move
on
to
animal
stock,
willow,
bark
rooting,
hormones,
grafting,
budding
seed
for
root
stocks
and
so
forth.
This
is
powerful.
It
means
that
if
an
open
source
ecologists
want
wants
to
replicate
an
edible
landscape
or
productive
plot,
they
can
at
little
or
no
cost
if
sweat
equity
is
applied.
This
is
where
factory
will
offer
courses
and
living
material.
A
This
spring
will
be
starting
this
by
a
workshop
propagating
raspberries
from
cuttings
and
grafting,
apples,
peaches,
pears
and
plums
on
root
stocks
that
we
grew
from
seed.
This
is
free
free,
day-long
workshop
for
true
fans,
$40
for
others,
so
sign
up
for
the
last
week
in
February.
True
fans
are
first
in
line.
If
you
are
not
a
true
fan,
then
you
can
still
sign
up
at
any
time
before
the
workshop
and
the
workshop
will
be
free
to
you
as
well.
We
can
accommodate
only
12
people
for
the
event
so
sign
up
now.
A
If
you
want
to
learn
and
take
some
home
some
plants,
it's
a
treat
to
be
able
to
create
your
own
fruit
trees
for
pennies
per
tree.
Now,
if
you
include
animal
stock
in
that
package
in
the
future,
this
becomes
like
heifer
project
international
for
open
source
ecology
see
our
proposed
plant
out
at
the
wiki.
As
far
as
the
crops,
we
aim
to
have
move
on
to
intensive
agriculture.
Organic
panic,
aquaponic
raised
beds
this
one
by
the
name
of
chinampas
and
was
reportedly
a
highly
successful
food
growing
system
for
indigenous
Mesoamerica.
A
Adapt
this
to
factory
farm
will
dig
a
circular
trench
like
a
house
foundation
with
live
track
in
a
day
with
runoff
from
our
clay
soils.
This
fills
with
water
and
we
fill
this
with
fish
on
the
island
that
has
been
created.
We
make
raised
organic
panickin
beds
with
lumber
from
our
sawmill
fertigation
feeds
the
beds
we
harvest
fish
towards
winter
and
the
chicken
coop
over
the
water
feeds
algae.
We
plan
on
time-lapse
photography
with
this,
so
we
can
see
the
details
of
how
this
works.
A
This
reminds
me
of
closed-loop
systems
in
the
nature
of
the
very
successful
integrated
food
and
waste
management
systems,
with
bat
guano
from
bat
houses
and
vermiculture.
We
aim
to
close
the
chicken
raising
loop.
We
will
be
adding
some
grain
crops
such
as
millet
and
black-eyed
peas.
We
hope
the
open
source
combine
is
done
in
time,
for
harvest
will
be
hatching
out.
Many
chicks
and
our
goats
will
go
from
five
to
ten
by
the
end
of
this
year
between
plant
out
soil
fertility,
equipment,
fabrication
and
propagation
work
will
be
busy
this
year.
A
On
the
agriculture
front,
here's
where
we
are
throwing
up
a
funding
basket
for
the
living
stock
part
we
are
creating
an
open-source
living
gene
bank
and
propagation
of
facility.
You
can
benefit
greatly
from
this
buy
sweat,
equity
propagation.
Where,
then,
you
can
take,
the
stock
for
free
propagation
is
trivial
for
many
plants
such
as
raspberries
or
apples,
you
have
to
come
on
site
for
this
project
and
our
wiki
has
a
propagation
calendar
that
displays
available
stock
and
timing
for
propagation
supporters
are
welcome
to
come
to
workshops
or
by
appointment.
A
This
is
meant
to
be
a
regional
plant
exchange
with
a
living
facility
as
part
of
a
small
farm
incubator
for
local
food
systems
by
providing
access
to
the
necessary
tools
and
knowledge,
we're
generating
to
necessary
knowledge
by
documenting
the
successes
and
failures.
One
example
of
success
is:
if
we
plant
out
rootstock
seed
in
the
greenhouse,
the
plants
can
be
ready
for
grafting
or
budding
in
late
summer.
If
we
take
care
of
the
plants,
we
did
some
budding,
but
none
of
it
took
last
year
from
some
of
the
pictures
in
this
video.