TRACTOR FARMING
COMMUNITY FARMING
Tractor Farming to Designed Farming Communities
Machinery & Monocultural Farming system served humanity with an environmental cost. As humanity, we are at the crossroads. Seeing the environmental impact on our foot print in the world, we need another way of growing our food.
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Our Social, Economical & Environmental problems are all connected with each other. And our way of living on this planet. To change our food print, we need to try different alternatives, different practises. To create these alternatives, we need to support them.
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This page is Towards Nature Permaculture's vision for our future farming!​
What is Community Farming?
Community farming means, instead of 1 farmer's activity with tractors and monocultural farming, backed up with Fertilizers & Pesticides, land management is done by a Sustainable community.
This community is designed based on Permaculture concept, so the success of food production is increased.
Also, with an affordable & sustainable housing, Financial sustainability of the community is increased.
As each niche community is surrounded by Food Forests, Environmental Sustainability & transformation is embedded in the community design.
Community is built by choose your own neighbour method, Social Sustainability is to begin with upfront power.
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The difference between C.S.A & Community Farming?
C.S.A (Community Supported Agriculture), the community lives outside the growing area, in their separate homes, in other cities. They are supporters/shareholders of the grower(farmer) but they are not directly grow food but they get involved on the harvesting.
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Designed, Interntional Sustainable Farming Community lives on the land, in affordable housing. They are pioneers of a productive lifestyle, rather than a Consumer lifestyle. Their main aim is to sustain themselves, Financially, Environmentally & Socially.
They are part time gardeners & part time do their own jobs, in the city or remotely at home in the village. They actively do gardening, forest farming, edible products producing activities. Their excess products become their extra income. Their functionally sustainable & affordable housing provides them low cost energy, recycled, reused wastes & grey water.
Why Community Farming?
Negative Environmental impact with monocultures & machinery farming, high level of Chemical Fertilizers, Pesticides usage, Genetically Modified seeds and their costs to the farmers, increasing energy(Diesel) costs for the tractors, Unhealthy & Processed food products with many chemicals in them, Consumer Economy driven farmers with Financial debt problems, Economic slowdown, wars, and Global weather changes(floods, droughts, forest fires...).
Our system is now failing, because we have been spending our costs from our mother's(Earth) savings account and now it is coming to an end. Also, Population growth makes people densely & unhealthy living conditions in cities & towns. Social unrest, disconnection, loneliness, and financial problems are growing.
As humanity, we need to find an alternative system to produce our food, re-connect with each other & nature, and also a financially sustainable system is needed. If we look at our problems holistically, we can easily see that we need a different way of life on this planet.
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This new system can start with pioneering alternative lifestyle examples. Main parameters of this new system must be based on 3 main Sustainability criteria's:
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Environmental Sustainability
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Financial Sustainability
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Social Sustainability
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​Designed, Intentional, (Sustainable) Farming Community is an alternative to Tractor Farming and it is designed based on Permaculture concept. ​​
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​DESIGNED
INTENTIONAL
FARMING
COMMUNITY​
DESIGN Methodology- Permaculture Concept
* Permaculture concept is about sustainin human beings within their living environments & in cooperation with their environments.
ZONE 0, PEOPLE = HOUSING
ZONE 1 - 2 = PRIVATE PRODUCTIVE AREAS
ZONE 3 = FOOD FOREST (COMMUNITY MANAGED)
ZONE 4 & 5 are not available in urban development & in this design
AFFORDABLE & PROACTIVE HOUSING:
Affordable, Sustainable & Functional Sustainability
Sustainability is designed on the house itself as individual unit. Outlined with inspiration from sea shell's house and enhanced with functional elements, such as energy creation, self regulated heating cooling, rainwater harvesting and waste recycling.
PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPING with PERMACULTURE
Housing and Landscape is sustainable by a combined design. Instead of separating human lifestyle from the nature and productivity, by design, it is encouraged to live productively, within the surroundings of nature and self regulating, perrenial ecological systems.
COMMUNITY by DESIGN
Instead of separation and competition between people, we bring the choice of creating your own community. Realising a lifestyle with your choice of people, in a sustainable way? Instead of competing with others to catch a spot to live, We give you the possibility to select the people you would like to share the life together. Farming or being a farmer doesn't mean you have to clean cow shit. It means you need to tend your garden part time and make money out of it.
- AFFORDABLE
- SUSTAINABLE
- REPLICABLE
Farming is done by the Sustainable Communities.
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- People becomes Connected Community
- Landscapes become Food Forests
- Food becomes Organic & healthy
- Housing becomes a lifestyle choice
Lifestyle by choice:
- From Centralized to Localized
- From Unproductive to Productive
Replicating sustainable communities(D.I.S.C.) in a designed form can bring the new way of creating urban, land based, productive and Sustainable Villages. Local economy can be established, local solutions to our social and environmental problems can be created. And this way of living is called PERMACULTURE...