Directory:Home Generation:Private Food Production System
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Private Food Production systems
At present, several systems can be used for private food production. These include:
- The Fukoaka Method
- Permaculture
- No-till farming
Perhaps the best system to be used is no-till farming. From the Integral Urban House project, we can see that with good plant set-up, no more than 15 minutes of work (see the Integral Urban House link at the main page) is required with this system. An example of the system is available from Instructables (http://www.instructables.com/id/Grow-organic-food-without-spending-%24/) (see step 5). In the Integral Urban House, the system is combined with rooftop composting and the system is said to able to be used in small houses/appartments.
Best herbal plant-patch set-ups
Herbal patches may be used in conjunction to the food production system to allow self-sufficiency in times of disease or when wounded. several plant set-ups may be used, depending on local environment, personal preference, ...
Books and publications
On food production systems
- Navdanya organic farming publications (http://www.navdanya.org/publications.htm)
- VillageEarth AT SourceBook: Contains free practical information on organic farming (http://www.villageearth.org/pages/Appropriate_Technology/ATSourcebook/)
- City People's Book of Raising Food
- Solar Gardening: Growing Vegetables Year-Round the American Intensive Way (http://www.amazon.com/Solar-Gardening-Vegetables-Year-Round-Independent/dp/0930031695) by Leandre Poisson and Gretchen Vogel Poisson
On herbs
- Rational Phytotherapy: a physicians Guide To Herbal Medicine: 4th Edition by Volker Schulz, Rudolf Hânsel and Varro E. ISBN:354067963
External links
- The Fukoaka Method (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Nothing_Farming)
- Permaculture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture)
- Some primers on maintaining a weedless organic garden (http://www.motherearthnews.com/Organic-Gardening/2007-06-01/Weedless-Gardening.aspx)
