One Community
Highest Good Food Infrastructure
People producing their own high-quality and diverse food is a path to increasing health, biodiversity, and individual and global food security. As part of One Community’s self-replicating and self-sufficient teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities and open source botanical garden models, we also see this as a solution to world hunger. This page is the open source portal to all the components necessary to create this. It contains the following sections related to the Highest Good food® Infrastructure:
- Related Pages
- What is the Highest Good Food
- Why Highest Good Food
- Ways to Contribute
- The Highest Good Food Open Source Portal (collaborative resource and information hub)
- Food-Sustainability Rollout Details
- Resources
- Summary
- FAQ
- Consultants
NOTE: THIS PAGE IS NOT CONSIDERED BY US TO BE A COMPLETE AND USABLE TUTORIAL UNTIL
WE FINISH OUR OWN CONSTRUCTION OF THIS COMPONENT, CONFIRM ALL THE DETAILS, AND ADD
TO THIS PAGE ALL THE RELATED VIDEOS, EXPERIENCE, AND OTHER UPDATES FROM THAT BUILD.
IN THE MEANTIME, YOU CAN HELP US COMPLETE IT ALL SOONER WITH THE FOLLOWING OPTIONS:
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HIGHEST GOOD FOOD® SEARCH ENGINE
WHAT IS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD®
We consider Highest Good food to be maximally nutritious, maximally bio-diverse, fresh, duplicable, space and resource efficient, ecologically and individually healthy food that is far superior to anything found in a typical grocery store. We are approaching this so it caters to vegans, vegetarians, and omnivores. We are also integrating it with One Community’s open source and earth-regenerative botanical garden model. This will provide a foundation for those interested in joining and helping build a global cooperative of people specifically studying, preserving, sharing, and evolving plant species for The Highest Good of All.
Some of the key features and intentions of the One Community Phase I food infrastructure include:
- Large-scale garden to feed 100+
- Large-scale soil amendment strategy
- Extensive hoop house infrastructure
- Developing 100s of food forest acres
- Humane raising of rabbits, chickens, and goats
- Complete integration of all food with the open source botanical garden model
- Comprehensive stewardship of wildlife and maintenance of an apiary/bee colony
Some of the key features and intentions of the One Community Phase II food infrastructure include:
- Artistic designs
- ADA Accessibility
- Multi-functional use
- Inclusion of aquaculture
- Central amphitheater space
- Water collection off of all structures
- Seven different internal growing environments: LSAQ | W1 | W2 | W3 | Z1 | Z2 | TA
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Large-scale Gardening to Feed 100+ People within 1 Year
Grow Zone Overview
WHY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD®
One Community’s Highest Good food designs demonstrate what truly ethical and carefully planned land stewardship is capable of. This is foundational to our strategy for global change methodology and an evolution of sustainability that integrates this food component with the 7 sustainable village models and open source Duplicable City Center. The ultimate result of this will be holistic living models demonstrating sustainable production of food with unparalleled nutrition and diversity. It will provide enough volume and variety to feed all of One Community and our visitors. Additional benefits and reasons we have for doing this are:
- Educating people
- Saving people money
- Conscious stewardship
- Improving people’s health
- Improving global biodiversity
- Providing a better eating experience
- Providing economic opportunity through sharing new foods
- Providing more free time when maintained collaboratively
- Eliminating the need for pesticides, fungicides, and herbicides
- Combining with One Community’s self-sufficient and self-replicating teacher/demonstration community, village, and city model to increase global food security and address global hunger
WAYS TO CONTRIBUTE TO EVOLVING THIS SUSTAINABILITY COMPONENT WITH US
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HIGHEST GOOD FOOD® OPEN SOURCE PORTAL
Highest Good food is an approach to global transformation through open source and free-sharing how to grow food that is maximally nutritious, maximally bio-diverse, fresh, space and resource efficient, ecologically and individually healthy, and far beyond anything found in a typical grocery store. The following sections will evolve and expand indefinitely with open source content that covers all aspects needed for duplicating of One Community’s food infrastructure. This can be done in part or as a whole and includes the following areas and open source resources to facilitate the process:
ADDITIONAL HIGHEST GOOD FOOD DETAILS
Click Image to Visit the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting Details Page
In accordance with our botanical garden model and our for The Highest Good of All philosophy we will demonstrate what truly ethical and carefully planned land stewardship is capable of. The ultimate result of this will be sustainable production of unparalleled nutrition and diversity capable of providing enough volume and variety to feed all of One Community and our visitors. Even with traditional methods one person working full-time on food production can produce enough food to feed 30; with aquaponics that same person can produce enough food to feed 300. Our goal when arriving on the property is to immediately start large-scale gardening and building ultra-affordable, easy, and fast to construct hoop houses. We will build enough hoop houses and plant enough food to make ourselves about 70% food self-sufficient within 3-4 months. Combining this with raising goats, chickens, and rabbits will provide sufficient food to feed 100+ people by the end of the first year. Until we are successfully producing enough food to sustain ourselves, we will be buying it from local producers and suppliers with the goal of supporting sustainable and ethical practices.
Phase II food production will include building the walipini and aquaponics food farms that will provide even more food diversity and volume. Once we start building these structures, the first two are estimated to take no more than 6 months to build and test and another 2 months or so to be producing food. All six structures should be able to be completed within a year.
RESOURCES
- All About Drying Food
- 22 Foods You Can Store in Root Cellars
- Open Source Large-scale Soil Amendment Hub
- Open Source Food Forest Creation Hub
- How to Test Seeds for Viability Article
- Open Source Large-scale Gardening Hub
- Open Source Botanical Garden Creation Hub
- Open Source Hoop House Creation Hub
- Open Source Aquapini and Walipini Creation Hub
- Permies.com Seed and Plant Source Review Grid
- Excellent video: "Corner post installation and bracing"
- Article: "How To Choose A Greenhouse Material"
- 100 Nursery/Plant Providers Organized Into Categories
- Experimenting with dig and no-dig garden beds article
- Vegetable Gardening For Dummies Cheat Sheet
- Article: 66 Things you Can Grow at Home In Containers
- A Crop-by-Crop Guide to Growing Organic Vegetables and Fruits
- How Much Do I Need to Plant to Feed My Family Article
- 100+ Heirloom, Organic, and Other Seed Suppliers/Providers
- A Site with 30+ Free Permaculture (and related) Book Downloads
- Article: "Backyard Bounty: How to Eat the Wild Plants in Your Yard"
- Article: "Plant Nutrients: What They Need and When They Need It"
- Article: "The Scientifically-backed Benefits of Companion Planting"
- "Getting Rid of Garden Pests" - includes "Plants that Naturally Repel Pests"
- 1000's of Canning and Preserving Recipes Searchable by Ingredient
- Over 2000 Canning Recipes Complete with Ratings and User Reviews
- 32-page PDF: Selecting, Preparing, & Canning Fruit - Includes Recipes
- Sourcing and Saving Seeds | Seed Providers | Plant Material Providers
- Gardening: A Comprehensive Guide From Planning to Harvesting, and More
- Seed Starting-Date, Succession Planting, and Target Harvest Date Calculators
- "A Complete Guide: How To Grow Strawberries and 10 Best Strawberry Recipes"
- Canning and Preserving by Category: Jams, Pickling, Fruit Butters, and Relishes
- All About Home Canning, Freezing, and Making Jams and Jellies (resource of resources)
- Paul Wheaton Podcast: "Urban Permaculture Realism" A lot here, click for summary
- A great overview video for how to create a climate battery for your greenhouse
- A short overview video about using compost to heat your greenhouse
- Article: "Grow an indoor herb garden: easily, sustainably and veganically"
- Free Online Course: Introduction to Permaculture | Course Book
- Paul Wheaton Podcasts with Joseph Lofthouse on Plant Breeding Part 1 | Part 2
- Have something you think should be added here? Click HERE to tell us about it
Here are some great videos showing both what is possible and why you might want to care:
SUMMARY
One Community wants to help people to grow their own high quality and diverse food. We believe if we can make this easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough, it will provide a clear path to increasing health, biodiversity, and individual and global food security. It also has the potential to revolutionize the way people look at and interact with the food they eat. As part of our self-replicating and self-sufficient teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities model, this could also address world hunger.
One Community Highest Good Food Overview – Click to Enlarge
FREQUENTLY ANSWERED QUESTIONS
Q: I thought you were 100% open source, why is “Highest Good Food” a registered trademark?
To understand this, please read our Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents and Using them to Support Open Source and Free-sharing page.
Q: Is One Community going to be a vegetarian community?
The One Community team consists of vegans, vegetarians, and omnivores. In accordance with our philosophy for The Highest Good of All we are maintaining a non-idealogical approach to food choices. That said, also in accordance with this philosophy, we will only support and consume food items that are ethically and sustainably raised, managed, and produced. The consensus process will be used to decide the evolution of the One Community food plan.
Q: I’m an omnivore or vegan, what if I don’t want to eat a vegan or omnivore diet?
The complete food self-sufficiency transition plan is designed to meet the needs of all dietary preferences through:
- Recipes that can be made vegan or omnivore:
- Vegan recipes were chosen that could easily have animal-based proteins added for omnivores
- Omnivore recipes were chosen that could easily be made with 100% vegan ingredients
- Alternating weeks of omnivore and vegan focused menus: The weeks are alternating so that we could design complete 1-week menus for each dietary preference to provide complete menus for both philosophies AND so that groups containing mixed preferences would have an equal way of focusing on each dietary preference for a week while still providing for the other preference as per #1 above. They alternate to address any concerns that recipes aren’t as good when a vegan recipe is made omnivore just by adding animal protein, or an omnivore recipe is made vegan just by replacing all animal-based ingredients.
In this way all dietary preferences can be provided, any sacrifices are shared in alternating weeks, and groups completely preferring vegan or omnivore options have clear menus they can follow for both choices.
Q: How do you intend to produce spices, mill grain for flour, cooking oil, etc. etc.
To us, “100% food sustainability” means we will demonstrate and open source share a model that doesn’t need external food sources. Having achieved this, what we produce internally versus choosing to buy will be decided through the consensus process.
Q: What is One Community’s stance on pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides?
If it is not safe to eat, we will not be spraying it on our food. Here’s a video we feel is helpful in understanding why:
Q: Can people choose not to eat in the group dining hall?
Yes, the Duplicable City Center will provide group dining space and the kitchen, where people choose to eat is up to the individual.
Q: Would we be allowed to have a hot plate stove (single burner)/microwave/toaster oven in our private residence if we wished to cook apart from the rest of the community from time to time?
Yes, people can supply their individual residences with these items if they want to.
Q: Do you plan to raise cows or other large grazing animals for milk or food.
Probably not due to the sustainability issues with this approach to food. This could however change if agreed upon through the consensus process.
Q: What if I want something that isn’t on the community menu?
The community menu will be agreed upon through the consensus process. If a person wanted something not included on that menu, then they would be welcome to purchase and provide it for themselves.
Q: What if you are unable to meet your timelines for food self-sustainability?
We have funds built into our business plan to provide food for an additional year if necessary.
Q: I’m vegetarian/vegan, would I have to participate in any part of the process or raising animals for food and/or eating/cooking them?
No, if you aren’t eating the food item, you would not have to participate in any aspect of One Community’s food diversity that didn’t agree with your personal beliefs and preferences.
Q: The aquapini and walipini structures are closed-loop systems, will you be supplementing those with CO2 to improve plant growth?
Based on the research we did, we believe that we should not be concerned about the CO2 levels in our growing structures. The CO2 generated by the decomposition of organic material within these structures, from the plants themselves at night, people working in and visiting the structures, and from outside when people enter and exit will be sufficient. Recent research also showed that excessive CO2 can actually be detrimental to the nutritional value of plants. Intentional increases to 1500 ppm (for production increases of 30%) can be created by various means but this extra CO2 decreases levels of key nutrients while also creating excess carbohydrate/sugar content. This results over the long run in plants becoming more like junk food than the nutritions foundations of a healthy diet they are meant to be.
Q: What sets One Community apart from similar projects?
One Community's open source project-launch blueprinting strategy and the fact that we are open sourcing and addressing ALL elements of society simultaneously are a combination unique to our organization. Together, these will help others duplicate what we do and create self-propagating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of positively impacting every single person on this planet within one generation.
Q: What sets One Community's open source goals apart from similar projects?
To our knowledge, no other project exists that is providing the comprehensive nature and detail of everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting.
Q: What is the specific One Community short-term goal?
- Become a world leader in global-solution information content within 6 months of moving onto the property as detailed in our open source project-launch blueprinting page.
- Expand within 5 years to a community of 200 full-time residents producing ongoing tools, resources, and tutorials while hosting thousands of annual visitors as outlined in our long-term vision page.
- Define the global-solution industry itself as an open source industry, expanding mainstream awareness, appeal, and desire for comprehensive sustainability by demonstrating and sharing a more attractive and fulfilling way of living that people can have if they desire to create it also.
- Teach as many people as possible to duplicate and/or evolve our global transformation model.
Q: What is the ultimate One Community long-term goal?
To transform our world into a sustainable and happier one through teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built all over the world. We will work with these hubs as our open source partners and fellow leaders of the open source, Highest Good of All, and sustainable planet movement leading to a New Golden Age of cooperation, collaboration, innovation, creativity, sustainable living, and increased happiness for the entire human organism.
Q: How are you funding One Community?
We are still seeking funding. Please see our Funding Related Details Page.
Q: Where will One Community be located and why?
Click HERE for property details that include why we have chosen the location we have.
Q: How far is One Community in the creation process?
Visit our progress page for a regularly updated list of our accomplishments and progress. Visit our blog for our on-going mini-updates and weekly summaries of accomplishments and progress.
Q: Why not just build a small-scale prototype home or community that includes a minimum-scale revenue-generating demonstration/operation? Wouldn't this get things going faster?
This small-scale operation already exists as Airbnb. What we see as missing is a complete model for self-sufficiency that is open source and reasonably replicable. Even complete models for self-sufficiency already exist in the form of the many eco-villages out there. What none of those offer though is any sort of understanding and/or path for how average people can replicate them. We also think there isn't enough of a compelling reason for most people to bother with changing how they live now to engage such a path/project, so our project is purposed to provide and demonstrate that too.
From a total global-change perspective though, we think it is even more important to create a permanent example:
- Dedicated to open source
- Capable of providing for the complete needs of hundreds of people.
- Providing the support needed so residents can work together on open source creation full-time.
- Revenue generation and space for expansion to grow to over a 1000+ full-time resident-volunteers.
- Able to support the establishment of other open source teacher/demonstration/R&D hubs around the world.
This is why the intended property, village models, social architecture and economic focuses are all big. To support faster and broader implementation, we are also developing everything so it is modular and implementable as individual components. This will allow for anyone who doesn't desire the full teacher/demonstration hub approach to have options too, but our primary goal is to demonstrate the complete teacher/demonstration hub as easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough for average people with average means to want to replicate it and/or use what we provide to build their own version.
Q: If you are giving everything away through open source, how do you intend to make money?
Our model is designed to prosper specifically because we are giving everything away through open source project-launch blueprinting. We accomplish this through eco-tourism marketed with the open source infrastructure we have already created and other supported revenue streams outlined on our revenue streams page. All of this further promotes our model of spreading sustainability and actively promoting and distributing even more open source blueprints for duplication by as many people as possible.
Q: How will this help people in Third World countries and other areas that need resources most?
Using the four-phase strategy above, we wish to demonstrate building a teacher/demonstration community, village, and/or city as profitable for large investors and/or a way for small groups of people to pool what resources they have and get out of debt. We see this spreading and bringing resources to the areas that need them most because building these villages in these areas will be more affordable and easier to do with less building restrictions.
Q: How do you stop the model from being totally capitalized without the positive intent of the original model?
We are not focused on putting limitations on the use of everything we are creating because of our open source commitment. We will, however, directly support any organization contributing specifically to open source project-launch blueprinting and operating for The Highest Good of All.
Q: Where would I find a more detailed description of how this works?
Please visit our About Us page, Methodology page, and Site Map for more comprehensive descriptions and links to complete details for every aspect of One Community.
Q: What about safety?
We consider a community of 500 people with shared goals and vision more safe than current living models. We think even a group of 50 people working together can handle any reasonable challenge.
CONSULTANTS ON THE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD DESIGNS
Adam Weiss: Kitchen Operations Project Manager
Aly Shannon: Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and Creative Director & Co-Owner of Roots of Medicine
Ana Flavia Almeida: Architecture and Urban Planning Student
Anna Cheal: Culinary Nutritionist
Avery Ellis: Aquaponics Specialist and owner/operator of Integrated Aquaponics
Bear Stauss: Horticulturalist and Landscape Design/Recreation Area Management Specialist
Benjamin Sessions: Strategic Sales and Real Estate Development Entrepreneur and Food Connoisseur
Brian Storz: Culinary Project Manager
Bupesh Seethala: Architectural Drafter & Designer, BS Electrical Engineering (BupeshSeethala.com)
Charles McLean: Architecture & Urban Agriculture Designer, Professor, and owner of OM Greengroup
David Sweet: Architect (DSweet.biz)
Douglas Simms Stenhouse: Architect and Water Color Artist (see: transparentwatercolor.com)
Gregory Quach: Data Enterer for Chef/Culinary
Hakan Sabol: Certified Permaculture Designer, Wed Designer, Graphic Designer, and Video Editor
Hayley Rosario: Sustainability Research Assistant
Jae Sabol: Certified Permaculture Designer, Project Manager, and Holistic Health Professional
Jessica Fairbanks: Administrative Assistant
Julia Meaney: Web and Content Reviewer and Editor
Kim Braman: Apiary and Beekeeping Expert
Marilyn Nzegwu: Chef and Culinary Consultant
Maya Callahan: Sustainability Researcher
Olayinka “Yinka” Omole: Recipe Reviewer and Data Entry Assistant
Ron Payne: HVAC / Thermal Designer, Mechanical Engineer
Sandra Sellani: Business Author, Speaker, Consultant, and Vegan Chef
Sangam Stanczak: Environmental Engineer (Ph.D., P.E.)
Smit Bhoir: Data and Business Analyst
Tatyana Tertitsa: Organic Gardener, Natural Builder, and 3D SketchUp Designer
Yifei Zhu: Analyst and Researcher
Zdenek Jurik: P.E. Structural, Civil and Mechanical Engineer and founder of ABC Engineering
Ziqian Zheng – Architectural Designer and Drafter
OPTIONS FOR PARTICIPATION
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