AmPeeps Feed Myself And Others

My Time Turned Into Nutrition

To produce much of my own food, and a bounty for others. Hand-farming can be plenty productive, and for better quality, more nutritious varieties no longer available, and no funny business.

Organized participation is key, the time can be fit into our lives, motivations are both personal and community, Self-managed processes, multiple overlapping growth cycles. Collection of a growing library of success models, research and results.

Outcomes
1. My PT hours yield a meaningful portion of my fresh, nutritious food need.
2. We provide for others, with limited waste, packaging and transportation, or markup.
3. Hard facts about productivity and costs.
4. Future productivity gains flow into the system.

Type Epic	Sphere Citizens	Needs/Wants Food	Stage Teaming
Goodness Score 6 💎	Doable Score 4 ✅	Benefitted Citizens 0M	Monetary Impact 0M
Scope Boulder CO	Team	Community	Funding 0

Small model, multiple years.
Direct impact for ~100? people, single program basis
LOW WEIRDNESS RISK

Purpose Outcomes

1. My flex part-time hours yield a meaningful portion of my fresh, nutritious food need.

2. We provide for others, with limited waste, packaging and transportation, or markup.

3. Hard facts about productivity and costs, time required. (essentially an artisan/volunteer barter)

4. Future productivity gains flow into the system.

Process & Requirements

START - seedling seed, space, water, electricity, grow lights

PLANT - ground seed, seedlings

TEND - weeding, pests

HARVEST - timing/technique, continuous/cycles, clean, package/crate

Layout

1,000 square meters, ~ 1/4 acre target size, spacing, organizing ideas

first drawing

Posts, wires - environmental measures, netting up, screening?, hand water, misting?
Clearance around, separation space, Boundary areas
Posting, signage
Trellis, supports

Areas of Interest for Improved Productivity

TEAM - self-directed, flex, participatory+volunteering+giving, commitments

ORGANIZING - work schedule, training, cohesion steps/program, managed scale, impediments removed/everything provided

SELECTION - variety nutrition, water efficiency, environmental

PROCESS - elongate season, multi-cycle, OpsDoc, no waste

MEASURES - precision, frequency

TOOLS - shared

Information Needs

Ground - size measures, initial environment measures. Rows, cycles, crops, water, harvest

People Time - schedule, processes, hours, instructions

Environment Measures (actuals) - temperature (air, soil), pH, rain, humidity, ground moisture, water supplement, sunlight, wind, pressure

Interesting measures (later?) - noise, ozone, certain frequencies, music, electro-static, electric flow, touch, direct stress

Research - topics, models, factor analysis, sources. Crop variety nutrition (basic).

Invest Upfront - Soil/Field Preparation, Irrigration, Infrastructure

Site selection - raw? to go thru full process? Or good start? Ground ( pH, moisture, bio, density ).

Tilling, slope/leveling, amendment (worms, fungi, compost), problem solving, cover/compost, soil temperature control, crop/variety adjustments

Measurement - perimeter posts ( temp, airflow, etc. )

Irrigation - Drip, mister/humidifier, many-point, reservoirs