Farming Principles
Principles of Farming Field & Flesh
Growing food as a spiritual exercise. Sustainable veganic food production, mining ziwaneh light from the earth
(EARTHSTAR)
In the Living Gods, Let the hallowed Light of Transcendent Truth be praised. Let the Sweet Mystery of Miryai awaken in the heart of hearts.

"The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings," -  Masanobu Fukuoka

Production of food is often left to large corporations who are motivated by profit rather than principles of health. The recomendations here are not meant to inspire hobby gardening, but to create lasting change in personal sourcing of nutrition. It is within the realm of families and small groups of families. Growing one's own food insures a nutritious food source. It also teaches many helpful life lessons since the principles that underlie natural farming also form the foundation of a healthy human. A person's body is their earth, their farm, their field. Skin is like the soil surface. Muscles and the skeleton are like the soil and rocks. The cardiovascular system of blood and vessels and heart is like a farm irrigation system with drip lines and irrigation pump. Planning meal content and fasting times are like crop timing and companion planting. The lungs oxygenate the body even as fluffing soil and providing good airflow in greenhouses helps plants. Breeding and choosing the best seeds is like having children or novice farm workers that must be trained and instructed.

The Natural Human does not do well in urbanized unnatural settings divorced from nature and the production of food, nor are huge modern farms the answer. Daily integration with nature and with growing things is important for a balanced happy human.  Farming has evolved because of many factors, not all of which are now relevant. Certainly farming on planet earth is vastly different than Mars farming where air must be compressed. Even earth farming, once done in the open field without irrigation, is being restructured to grow vertically under led lights without soil. In the studies below, open field, enclosed space, greenhouse and wapini farming are looked at, with relevant natural approaches appropriate for a temperate Mediterranean climate with some irrigation available. The practice of Farming here can be approached on three levels: Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced.

• Beginner: Garden plots sufficient to grow most of one's fresh produce,  using imported grains, beans, oil seeds, compost and fertilizers. (The diet requires about 500 square feet of land in a temperate climate per person for fresh produce, which is five 100 Sq ft beds, or 20 raised  beds of 3.5'x7', requiring about  ~5000 gallons water. Grain/Bean/Seed (Imported/bought) in lbs: Wheat 13, Corn 9, Rice 5, Barley 47, Quinoa 13, Bean 22, Lentil 4, Flax 15, Camelina 8. (Harvesting 700+ square feet of grain, bean and oil seeds can be a daunting task, especially in the beginning. Hence the recommendation to buy these initially.)
• Intermediate: Farming of needed  fresh produce, plus many grains, pseudograins, legumes and oil seeds. Use of cover crops to mineralize fertilizer imports. Compost creation. Imports of minerals and seeds.
• As above + Perenial tree and bush starts (~766 sq ft  x 4)
• Wapini/greenhouse begun (~330 sq ft per person)
• Additional growing area prepared with cover crops, fencing, etc
• Advanced: Organic Production of all food, including greenhouse foods, as well as seeds. Sustainable self reliant food supply. Approximately 1400 square feet of annual beds plus up to 1072 square feet perennial berry, vineyard and orchard space. Fed with homegrown fertilizer.
• Wapini/greenhouse (330' area per person, minimum 4 persons to share trees)
• 742 square feet outdoor trees and berries per person (minimum 4 person too share trees)
• ~48  3.5'x7' beds, or 12 100' beds, for annual crops per person (less needed in tropics, more in colder climates), plus extra beds for insurance (crop failure, insect damage, theft)
• FARMING (EARTHSTAR) Farming- Mining Ziwaneh Light (Self Sufficient Food Production, Processing and Storage) The process of producing ones own food, and offspring, can be viewed in 5 different parts:
• Firestar: Timing Crops & Meal Planning, Row Covers & Clothes.  - Successions, Protections, Microclimates
• Windstar: Fiber & Biomass. Fluffing-shaping Soil & Cardio, Plant Diseases & Flu, Microbes & Biome. Pests - Non toxic homemade Jaddam Repellents
• Zephyrstar: Seed starting & Child-raising, Plant Nurseries & Kindergarten, Training & Teaching. Seeds - Localized Eugenics and Variatal Adaptation
• Earthstar:  The Soil & Muscles, Soil surface & Skin . Soils - Ziwaneh Biosphere Enhancement - Growing food as a spiritual exercise.
• Waterstar: Fertigation & Food. Feeding  - Veganic Plant Elixirs & 44:1 Cold Compost
• Useful Gardening and Farming Books,  Fukuoka no-till farming style in Japan., Jadam Natural Farming, etc.

• Timing Crops & Meal Planning, Row Covers & Clothes.  - Successions, Protections, Microclimates. To produce your own food a well thought out plan is required. Attention needs to be given to the proper time to plant crops. The timing of crops has much to do with the weather, whether it is a six month growing season, a 3 month one, or a year round tropical  or indoor growing environment. Outside farms will need, per person, aprox 1200 square feet of annually planted beds with an additional 1107 perennial outdoor and indoor area in a six month growing season area, and even more outdoor square feet in a climate with only four or five warm months.*
• Food Needs & Space Needed to Produce - Area and amounts of food needed to grow annual, orchard and greenhouse crops for the 5 Mt menu in 5-6 month Mediterranean climates. ~1400+1072 square feet of annual and perennial plots per person (includes some shared fruit trees)
• Garden Layout: Layout, Timing & Plot Size: Outdoor Fields, Watered Gardens, Tunnels & Greenhouses. (Garden plot plan for Barley focused crops.)
• Climate - The climate of one's region dictates the type and time of crop production and must be carefully studied. (Humans should live in harmony with their surroundings and climate, adapting with seasonal changes.)

•   Crop Choices based upon climate data, growing degree days. What you choose  to grow should depend on water and sunlight availability - criteria to weigh various crop choices
• Varieties and Variety Trials
• Frosts - Hard and Soft frost dates determine timing and types of food grown in any one period, and thus the menu of that period. (A difference of diet should be observed as seasons change.)
• Amounts - Most food should be self grown and be carefully planned according to the needs of a preferred healthy diet. (Timing of meals is as important as crop timing. Insulin spiking foods should be restricted to 1/5 the day, fasting to 3/5.)
• Successions - careful timing of crops so an overabundance does not happen in a short window. (It is preferable to split up fiber heavy vegetable meals thruout an eating window rather than overeating on an OMAD diet which does not work well with a bulky vegetable diet.)
• Protection: Wapinis, Barns, Houses - Sustainable Architecture: - Tatami Mat protocol. Natural Shelter: Earthships, Mars Habitats....(Natural breathable clothing materials, free from chemicals, should be worn according to dictates of weather and cold.)
•   All Indoor (12 hrs Under Led Lights or 6hrs Led+6hrs sunlit thru glass ceiling):
• Complete Annual Crop Diet in 321 inside, 984 outside'  - A 5lb a day diet composed of only annual crops (sufficient caloriies but lacks tree fruit like avocados and nuts)
• Minimal Indoor Food Production - Emergency plots - incomplete diet grown under lights - (Mars Study)
• 765 Small Indoor Garden- (Oats instead of Barley)
• Emergency Grows: - Less workable and less sustainable crop notes for emergency situations
• Space Efficient Emergency Crops

• Various farming strategies for various situations encountered in a 6 month long Mediterranean Climate growing region with no summer rainfall:
• Concentration on cold grains (Barley) and cold legumes (chick, fava, pea, lentil) that can be grown outside of the warm summer season and with no irrigation.
• Concentration of crops that produces a lot of calories in a small area (potatoes for example)
• Focus on dry farming crops or those that mature before summer heat arrives.


*It is possible to grow indoors under led lights. Considering the cost and fragility of an indoor farming situation under lights, an outdoor one that grows all of its food during just half of the year is to be preferred over a year round indoor system that uses almost the same amount of land to produce the same amount of calories, or 3/4 of the footage outdoors for a partially sunlit interior. (A fully led illuminated interior would be the only option on Mars, in polar regions, or during times of intense climatic upheaval. Some indoor environments can have a translucent roof to add six or more hours of sunlight even in winter, and to which six hours of 20-30 watts of artificial led light must be added per square foot.  When sunlight is not available, the illuminated period should be doubled to give 12 hours of light per day over the crop. Perfectly controlled environments can probably maintain a nutritious sustainable diet in about 320 square feet of garden beds with expert growers, or an area of 24 feet by 24 feet with includes 225' of  paths and work areas. A 576 square foot controlled indoor growing area, 24'x24', would also need around 350 square feet of  solar panels and an inverter and batteries to energize the lights to augment a sunlit roof, and twice that (700')  for a space only illuminated with led.)

• Fiber & Biomass. Fluffing-shaping Soil & Cardio, Plant Diseases & Flu, Microbes & Biome. Pests - Non toxic homemade Jadam Repellents
• Infusions - Soil should have  microbes from nearby mountain leafmold multiplied in a non aerobic environment and  infused into it. (Similar to how the human body should have probiotics added if these are in depletion.)
• Biomass Production - Grain, Pseudograin, fava, sunflower biomass production (>30# per 100') for compost creation to keep the land sustainable without outside imports.  (Similar to how Fiber should be a major part of the overall diet, it is like the biomass of the soil.)
• Organic Matter - Intercropping, especially of understory legumes beneath grain, to be cut off at half flowering to increase soil fertility along with annual or biannual applications of 1/2' 44:1 Cold Compost. Biomass should be grown and applied.  (Similar to how the Fiber bulk should be a substantial part of most meals.)
• Herbal Pesticides - Use of safe, easy and effective organic pesticides as advocated by Jadam.
• Elixers - Sulphur based sprays for pest and fungal control per Jadam.
• Wetting Agent - homemade detergent used in agricultural sprays per Jadam.
• Sprays - misting of plant foliage to control pests.  - Non toxic homemade Jadam Repellents
• Drenches - soil drenching as a method to apply pest deterents.
• Soils should have an adequate amount of air, or fluff, to encourage the microbiome of the soil and make root penetration easier. Not thru constant double digging, but by greenmanure and compost application to no till beds. (Similar to well oxygenated blood, via cardio rich exercise, leads to healthier internal flora within humans.)

• Seed starting & Child-raising, Plant Nurseries & Kindergarten, Training & Teaching. Seeds - Localized Eugenics and Variatal Adaptation
• Eugenics - development of Variatal vegetable seed strains best adapted to ones climate and region. (Conception and raising of healthy children best adapted to a healthy diet and lifestyle.)
• Non gmo - Preferred use of open pollinated non gmo organic seeds that can be reproduced on site. (Care should be taken, on a genetic level, when conception of children is considered, especially as Crisper and other dna flaw correcting methods become accessible.)
• Trials - Careful choosing and experimenting with various crop varieties best adapted to the local microclimate, and creating in-house seeds whenever possible. Variatal Choices (Mate selection should be done with care, and conception entertained only after careful observation of true computability over an extended timeframe.)
• Trays - Seeds started in trays and raised in plant nurseries for later transplanting to save field space. (Children should be provided with near perfect nursery and kindergarten environments that are both health, peaceful, beautiful and stimulating. Too few resources are typically concentrated in this area by modern society.)
• Harvest Weight -  careful weighing of all harvests to further understand the best varieties to grow. (Careful evaluation of an environment and resources before continued conceptions takes place.)

• The Soil & Muscles, Soil surface & Skin . Soils - Ziwaneh Biosphere Enhancement - Growing food as a spiritual exercise.
• Mineralized - The growing media/soil should be scientifically tested and filled with the perfect ratio  of all needed minerals and elements. (The body should also be fortified with all necessary minerals, preferably thru food but also via supplements, tested with occasional laboratory blood tests.)
• Perfect soil - proper mineralization of garden soils for nutrient rich food production
• Soil Recipe - a soil scientists view of propper soil mineralization
• Shapes - The growing area should be divided up into equally sized workable beds or plots that are both beautiful and functionable. If affordable, the land should be restructured, terraced, swaled and transformed in a way that captures natural water, sunlight. It should contain pit greenhouses and drain well, and should be protected from harsh winds, etc. (The body should be shaped and well defined thru weight lifting and exercise.)
• Soil surface should be protected from harsh drying winds and weather and sun thru use of a compost surface covering layer. (Skin should be kept clean but the protective oil layer preserved thru not overbathing, scrubbing, over soaping.)
• Nursery plants in growing media should be uppotted, amended and taken inside and out of greenhouses to harden off before moved to the field. (Children should be encouraged to play outside as well as in, and to safely interact with the world before being exposed to the often harsh adult world.)
• No-till Occultation - Occultation using tarps for 2 weeks in heat and 4+ weeks in cool weather to kill weeds between grows and also to create a buffer period (tarping skipped to lengthen out grow in cold years when harvest or planting time is severely offset by weather and more time is needed.) (The human body needs total darkness while slumbering, any light source disrupts natural cycles within the body.) (It also needs adequate vitamin D from sun exposure on bare skin)


Waterstar
Fertigation & Food

• Full Irrigation (10 gallons per square foot for entire summer for multiple or  long maturing crops, 250 gallons a year for a 24 square foot 3.5'x7' bed), 1000 gallons of water for four.:
• Limited Irrigation: (some extra water reserves but not enough for full summer watering)
• Fertigated semi dry farmed plots(Tomatoes, Squash, Brassicas)
• Fully watered small plot (Celery, Lettuce, etc.)
• Fertigated semi dry farmed Trees/Berries Fruit Tree Notes
• Fully Irrigated  Indoor Greenhouse
• Fertigation & Food. Feeding  - Veganic Plant Elixirs & 44:1 Cold Compost  For full irrigation, each square foot of soil requires 10 gallons total during a 5-6 month growing season (in Zone 14).
• Folier Feeding - the spraying of plant leaves with kelp and other nutrients. Avoidance of chemical pesticides. (The external application of medicinal compounds thru coldpresses, compresses, ointments and salves. Avoidance of chemical concoctions sold to the masses by irresponsible corporations.)
• Auxiliary Green: Forest/Alfalfa Field - Secondary source, beyond kitchen scraps, to serve as green matter for cold composting. (The diet is greatly enhanced by green smoothies made from mineral and phyto nutrient dense greens and berries.)
• 44:1 Cold Compost - Soil should be enriched with self made 44:1 compost derived from self grown biomass with small additions from other  natural safe sources like a nearby forest. (Fermented vegetables act as homemade probiotics to enhance digestion and health.)
• Nutrient Tea - Kitchen scraps and crop residues rotted in buckets of water till diluted and applied as a nitrogen source to plants. Also natural clays, phosphorus and potash sources turned into teas.
• Many types of herbal and medicinal teas are helpful.
• JLF, an organic fertilizer  made from the putrefaction of organic materials in the presence of locally sourced microorganisms. Made from wild grass, crop residue, and fruits.
• Legume Cover -  Soil fertility (nitrogen) enhanced by 6 week minimum legume cover crops between most plantings that regenerate the soil between grows and/or create a buffer zone (cover crop skipped to lengthen out grow in cold years when harvest or planting time is severely offset by weather and more time is needed.) (Sprouting of legumes, such as lentil and garbonzo, to lessen their arginine ratios while still providing extra protein in the diet.)
• No Irrigation (Dry Farmed w minimal seedling nursery water):
• Dry Farmed Grains, Pulses & Oil Seeds(Barley, Wheat, Chickpea, Lentil, Pea, Flax, Camelina) See Barley/Flax Outdoor Garden Plan minus the summer crops
• Dry farmed hardy veges (Tomatoes, Squash, Brassicas, zucchini)
• Dry farmed Trees/Berries (Olives, Grapes, fig, pomegranate, jujube, almond,  pistachio, plums)
 

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