Large Scale Gardening

Reconnecting people with their food, and re-teaching people how to grow their own food, has the potential to positively and permanently change the world. It is possible to grow food that is fresher, healthier, and more diverse than what is currently found in the grocery stores. When grown properly, this food can also be grown without the use of pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides. This page is a guide to unique varieties that most people have never seen of common foods.

This page includes the resources to buy seeds and grow these amazing foods yourself. It also includes One Community’s open source large-scale gardening strategy to produce enough of these amazing foods to feed over 100 people within 1 year. All foods that will additionally be grown and accessioned as part of our open source botanical garden model to maximize the benefits of what we learn for application as part of our self-sufficient and self-replicating teacher/demonstration community, village, and city strategy.

This open source hub includes the following sections:

• Specific plant pages for each variety
• Related Pages
• What is Large-scale Gardening
• Why Open Source Large-scale Gardening
• Complete Planting Plans for the 18 Hoop Houses
• Large-scale Gardening Food Purchase Order
• Large-scale Gardening Planting Plan Specifics
• Open Source Content to be Added Later
• Other Resources
• Summary
• FAQ

CLICK IMAGES OR LINKS FOR A COMPLETE PAGE ON EACH PLANT VARIETY

Beans	Carrots	Cole Crops	Beets	Celery
Corn	Cucumbers	Eggplants	Alliums	Lettuce
Peas	Tomatoes	Radishes	Potatoes	Squash
Peppers	Melons	Parsnips	Parsley	Turnips
Oca	Mashua	Ulluco	Mauka	Ahipa
Maca	Arracacha	Sweet Potatoes	Cabacui	Chayote
Wax Gourd	Cassabanana	Achochas	Bitter Melon	Asparagus

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WHAT IS LARGE-SCALE GARDENING

As part of One Community’s global change methodology, we’ve created this page for open source sharing a large-scale gardening strategy designed for easily feeding over 100 people within 1 year when combined with our open source hoop house strategy and humane raising of rabbits, chickens, and goats. These areas of food production, plus planting the One Community food forest, will be Phase I of the One Community Highest Good food plan. Phase II will be construction of the aquapini and walipini structures. This large-scale gardening plan will also be:

• Identifying the species of plants that will do best in a specific area
• Providing sufficient seeds to double the garden size by the next year
• Providing food diversity far superior to what is available in the grocery store
• Specifically providing foods for fresh-eating, canning, pickling, freezing, and drying

Through careful planning, holistic gardening approaches (companion planting, composting, etc.), and experimentation with different species, large-scale gardening can affordably produce large volumes of locally grown/fresher, higher quality, and significantly more diverse foods than what is available in almost all grocery stores. Here’s a guide to what would best be grown in-ground versus what you can grow in pots:

Only some plants grow well in pots – Here’s a guide

WHY LARGE-SCALE GARDENING

Reconnecting more people with their food, and re-teaching people how to grow their own food, has the potential to positively and permanently change the world. It is possible to grow food that is fresher, healthier, tastes better, and more diverse. When grown properly, this food can also be grown without the use of pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides too.

Many people already realize this. Just look at these statistics on why people choose to grow their own food:

Why People Garden

We see this as both inspirational and motivational and One Community is sharing this open source gardening strategy to demonstrate and teach these things even more. As a foundation of our self-sufficient and self-replicating teacher/demonstration community, village, and city strategy, we are teaching these things on a large scale to make them easier and more accessible to groups as small as twenty and scaling up to hundreds.

COMPLETE PLANTING PLANS FOR THE 18 HOOP HOUSES

Here are the complete planting maps for the 18 initial hoop houses. The numbers in the key correlate with the plant codes in the purchase order below and on the complete pages for each of the specific plants. For easy reference, you can click to enlarge a map and then just use the “Find” function (Command F on a Mac/Control F on a PC) to search this page for that specific code, then click the associated link for additional details.

Click Individual Maps to Open a 10X Enlarged Version in a New Window

CLICK HERE TO LEARN HOW TO BUILD THESE HOOP HOUSES

The layout above shows the primary foods to be planted in each area. Companion planting will also be integrated into this and foundational to the design. Details on this, and a companion planting guide, can be found in the Large-scale Gardening Planting Plan Specifics section below.

LARGE-SCALE GARDENING FOOD PURCHASE ORDER

• SSE = Seed Savers Exchange http://www.seedsavers.org
• DS = Desert Survivors http://www.desertsurvivors.org
• JLH = J.L. Hudson, Seedsman http://www.jlhudsonseeds.net
• RCS = Redwood City Seed Co. www.ecoseeds.com
• SS = Sacred Succulents http://sacredsucculents.com
• SHP = Sand Hill Preservation http://www.sandhillpreservation.com
• NS/S = Native Seeds/SEARCH http://nativeseeds.org/
• HMS = High Mowing Seeds http://www.highmowingseeds.com/
• OGW = One Green World http://www.onegreenworld.com
• BCH = Baker Creek Heirloom seeds http://www.rareseeds.com
• HJ = Helton Josue http://www.colecionandofrutas.org/
• SVH = Silverhill Seeds http://www.silverhillseeds.co.za
• TSC = Territorial Seed Company http://www.territorialseed.com/
• EVG – Evergreen Seeds Company http://www.evergreenseeds.com
• MRT = Adopt-A-Mirliton Project http://mirlitons.org/
• KZS = Kitazawa Seed Company http://www.kitazawaseed.com
• JW = Rio Guaycuyacu http://www.guaycuyacu.net/

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Purchase Details

Complete purchase order details are being added for each species as we complete them above. Prices are current as of March 2014.

LARGE-SCALE GARDENING PLANTING PLAN SPECIFICS

Individual varieties of each crop species will be interplanted with different species, rather than, for example, all the potato varieties in one row. There are reasons for this; first, it helps break up the monoculture of any one species. By scattering the cultivars widely across the garden, they are less prone to insect and disease problems. Second, it aids in selfing and pollination control. Since many of the varieties we will plant are rare heirlooms, it fits our conservation ethic to multiply them for distribution to others. This can only be accomplished if they are prevented from crossing with other varieties – spatial separation aids in this, although we will also use techniques such as bagging, hand pollination, etc. where appropriate.

Many plants in this section also benefit from dense planting. The concept of rows is an outgrowth of mechanical farming and plants do not grow this way in nature. With this in mind, we will be demonstrating permaculture principles and a more nature-inspired planting approach that considers the beds themselves as “rows,” having, e.g. 10 or 20 feet of row densely planted to a variety or combination of varieties. This will allow us to companion plant in a way that more closely mimics nature while also forming a living mulch, conserving water, and using nutrient (compost) more efficiently.

Here is some additional information on companion planting, insects, and spacing:

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Companion Planting 1 – Click to Enlarge	Companion Planting 2 – Click to Enlarge	Care & Harvesting – Click to Enlarge

We will open source share here videos, tutorials, planting maps (like the hoop house maps below), and other specifics described above once we know the location-related details developed through creating them on the property. The 18 initial hoop houses, however, have complete planting maps you can see below. Use the numbers in the key correlate with the plant codes for easy reference. To find the plant codes, you can click to enlarge a map and then just use the “Find” function (Command F on a Mac/Control F on a PC) to search this page for that specific code, then click the associated link for additional details.

Click Individual Maps to Open a 10X Enlarged Version in a New Window

CLICK HERE TO LEARN HOW TO BUILD THESE HOOP HOUSES

OPEN SOURCE CONTENT TO BE ADDED LATER

• Recipes
• Nutritional details
• Drying, pickling, and preserving strategies
• Companion planting, natural pest control, and other planting and maintenance specifics

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 Botanical Garden Creation Hub
• Open Source Hoop House Creation Hub
• Open Source Aquapini and Walipini Creation Hub
• 100 Nursery/Plant Providers Organized Into Categories
• Experimenting with dig and no-dig garden beds article
• 100+ Heirloom, Organic, and Other Seed Suppliers/Providers
• How Much Do I Need to Plant to Feed My Family Article
• Article: 66 Things you Can Grow at Home In Containers
• A Crop-by-Crop Guide to Growing Organic Vegetables and Fruits
• A Site with 30+ Free Permaculture (and related) Book Downloads
• 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
• Seed Starting-Date, Succession Planting, and Target Harvest Date Calculators 
• Canning and Preserving by Category: Jams, Pickling, Fruit Butters, and Relishes
• All About Home Canning, Freezing, and Making Jams and Jellies (resource of resources)

SUMMARY

This page is for open source sharing a large-scale gardening strategy designed for feeding over 100 people within 1 year when combined with our open source hoop house strategy. In-ground growing, hoop houses, and the One Community food forest will be Phase I of the One Community Highest Good food plan. Phase II will be construction of the aquapini and walipini structures. Our goal in open source sharing these food production methodologies is reconnecting people with their food and re-teaching people how to grow their own food. We are doing this as part of our global-change methodology because we feel it is important for people to understand that it is possible to grow food that is fresher, healthier, more diverse, and grown without the use of pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides too. We see open source sharing this as for The Highest Good of All and just one of many ways to inspire people to consider self-sufficient and self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities as a worthwhile living option.

FREQUENTLY ANSWERED QUESTIONS

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: 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.