- Food Preservation and Storage
- Food Dehydrator
- Fermentation
- Cheese
- Kimchee
- Kombucha
- Pickles
- Yogurt
- Low-energy refrigeration and freezing
- Solar powered refrigeration
- Canning
- Community Canning Centers. (1946). U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library. https://www.nal.usda.gov/exhibits/ipd/canning/exhibits/show/equipment/item/41
- Nhatt Nichols, 2022, "Yes We Can: The Rise, Fall, and Potential Rebirth of Municipal Canning," The Daily Yonder. https://dailyyonder.com/yes-we-can-the-rise-fall-and-potential-rebirth-of-municipal-canning/2022/08/10/
- Portland community action#Kitchen Share: A Sustainable Community Resource for Home Cooks
- Food Production (growing food):
- Aquaponics and Hydroponics
- Rancho Delicioso, Costa Rica. https://www.ranchodelicioso.com/hydroponics-costa-rica/
- Chicken tractors
- Companion Planting
- Three sisters agriculture (beans, corn/maize, squash).
- Edible landscaping
- Fish farming (Aquaculture)
- Fleet gardening
- Forest Gardens and Fruit Forests
- Agroforestry at SHIFT Esperanza, Costa Rica. https://shiftesperanza.com/sustainability/#conservation
- Allegria Farm at Allegria Village, Costa Rica. https://www.alegriavillage.com/about-our-farm AND Regenerative Farming Practices at Allegria Village, Costa Rica. https://www.alegriavillage.com/farm-practices Practices include: worm composting; raised bed gardening; bee keeping; food forest; companion planting; integrated pest management.
- Syntropic agricuture, including seed selection and seed saving, and forest-gardening at The Ark in Costa Rica. https://www.theark.world/
- Honey Bees
- Indoor agriculture
- Agritecture. https://www.agritecture.com/ "Agritecture is an advisory services and technology firm focused on climate-smart agriculture, particularly urban and controlled environment agriculture."
- Passive solar greenhouses
- Irrigation (see also Precision Agriculture)
- Blumat watering systems, https://www.sustainablevillage.com/
- Appropriate Technology Collaborative, open-source designs for small water pumps, https://apptechcollaborative.org/design-library/.
- Mushrooms
- Permaculture
- Natural Capital Permaculture Plant Database. https://permacultureplantdata.com/plant-database
- Permaculture Association (UK), https://www.permaculture.org.uk/about-us
- Rancho Mastatal, Costa Rica. https://ranchomastatal.com/the-plants-and-permaculture
- Shades of Green Permaculture, Atlanta, Georgia. https://shadesofgreenpermaculture.com/
- The Ark in Costa Rica. https://www.theark.world/
- Portable gardens
- Precision Agriculture. <Concise definition here.>
- EarthMetric Innovations, off-grid, portable data collection for optimizing irrigation, fertilization, pest and disease control, etc. https://earthmetricinnovations.com/
- Solar cooking
- Vertical gardening
- Urban Agriculture
- Aquaponics and Hydroponics
- Food Safety
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- Food Waste Reduction
- Food waste collection and processing
- Household scale
- Neighborhood scale
- Community scale
- Waste equals food.[1]
- Food waste collection and processing
- Soil health, restoration and soil-building practices
- Biochar
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- Vertical integration of food products, into communities and ecosystems of businesses.[2]
- High-value resource production and use.
- Gaviotas: A village to reinvent the world (10th Anniversary Edition, 2008). https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/gaviotas/ Book by Alan Weisman.
- Medicinal gardens. Preventive nutrition.
- Organic Seed Banking (at The Ark in Costa Rica). https://www.theark.world/
- High-value resource production and use.
RESOURCES[edit | edit source]
- Back to main page: Ecovillages & Intentional Communities Energy and Climate Action Research Project
- Farming and Gardening for Self-Sufficiency
- Ron Melchiore and Johanna Melchiore, 2020, The Self-Sufficient Backyard: For the Independent Homesteaders. https://selfsufficient-backyard.com/my-book/
- How is climate change affecting agriculture in different regions? What plants are best to consider for our newly destablized climate? What crops are needing to move to new locations because of climate change (e.g. wine grapes, apples, citrus fruits, peaches).
REFERENCES[edit | edit source]
- ↑ McDonough, William, and Michael Braungart, 2002, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, https://mcdonough.com/cradle-to-cradle/
- ↑ Dunbar, Meghan French, 2015, How Zingerman’s Deli Became a $40 Million Business, https://socapglobal.com/2015/10/how-zingermans-deli-became-a-40-million-business/