New Page! Walipini and Aquapini Planting and Harvesting

The open source planting and harvesting plans for our Phase I food infrastructure are starting to come together. Check out the new page with the space and zone details: http://www.onecommunityranch.org/walipini-and-aquapini-planting-and-harvesting/

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/walipini-and-aquapini-planting-and-harvesting/

One Community Updates: Video Blog 2 | Open Source Education for Life | SEGO Center City Hub | Tropical Dome

Here is our second video blog covering the progress of the last week including progress to our open source Education for Life Program, the SEGO Center City Hub, and the Pod 1 facility that will produce tropical food and function as social space too. One very exciting development from last week that we forgot to mention in the video blog was the publishing of one of our articles by Neale Donald Walsch’s (international speaker and author of the Conversations with God book series) organization called The Global Conversation. The article is called “Creating an Open Source and Free-shared Collaborative Planet” and you can read our blog on it here.

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/one-community-updates-week-of-mar-4-2013/

Open Source Aquaponics/Aquapini Development Update

Thank you Avery Ellis and Dave Jones! Over two years of planning and collaboration on our open source designs for aquaponics/aquapini sustainable food systems are finally at the point where we are drawing up architectural plans!

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/open-source-aquaponicsaquapini-development-update/

Open Source and Free-shared Aquaponics/Walipini Combination Update

We’ve been busy with infrastructure design details! Here are the initial layouts and aquaponics and walipini combination designs called aquapinis. The three walipini food production systems we are designing, along with new design images, can be found at this blog update.

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/open-source-sustainable-food-systems-update/

Agriculture Sustainability and Seeds – “The Gift,” A 3-Minute Film by Jean-Marc Abela

When it comes to agriculture sustainability, seeds is where it all started – for human civilization and for our daily bread today. Yet, so few are saving seeds these days. Many of us do not even know what the seeds of the food we eat look like. Jean-Marc Abela created a short and beautiful video to share a perspective on seeds and life itself. If you enjoy it, please help by sharing this and voting at the end of the film.

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/agriculture-sustainability-the-gift/

30 Year Study: Organic Farming Outperforms Conventional, Chemical Farming

Based on a 30-year side-by-side trial [See full report pdf] of conventional and organic farming methods at Pennsylvania’s Rodale Institute, organic farming outperformed conventional farming in every category.

http://wakeup-world.com/2012/02/26/30-year-study-organic-farming-outperforms-conventional-chemical-farming/