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Formed: 2005 Established: 2006
Factor 'e' Farm - Open Source Ecology
Maysville, Missouri,
United States
World's First Open Source Tractor (in its natural environement)
 We are building the world's first replicable open source self-sufficient high-appropriate-tech permaculture ecovillage—to transcend survival and evolve to freedom.
Factor e Farm is the land-based facility where we put the theory of Open Source Ecology into practice. Agricola sum. We are farmer scientist, working to develop a world-class research center for decentralization technologies. Now there's a tool for doing this: open source permaculture and technology deployed via flexible and digital fabrication. Open engineering is applicable to our technology base, and from that, to providing basic needs. That is a stepping stone to evolution.
Factor e Farm is not a factory farm. Why “e”? It is a transcendental number. We aim to transcend. We push towards open source, with a factor 10 reduction in price. Or at least e. Ten times cheaper means ten times the freedom. It is Factor e improvement in quality of life. It is technology for ecology: evolve to freedom.
We started with raw land. We paid our last electricity bill three years ago. We are getting our power from waste vegetable oil and the sun. We drink pure free rain water. We grow most of our food. We are free. Welcome to our life. We want to help others do the same: decentralization. Regain control of your life. Be your own boss. Evolve to freedom.
The Global Village Construction Set is the first experiment of Open Source Ecology. Our challenge is to see how far we can reach into human prosperity on a small scale. Can we create an advanced, largely self-sufficient “civilization” on the scale of villages or farmsteads? Have we overlooked something? If so, what else is needed? Could this have the potential to transform the world?
 
Website: http://www.OpenFarmTech.org
Contact:
Marcin Jakubowski
Maysville, Missouri 64469 United States

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Factor e Farm Blog
Last Updated:8/11/2009
 
Visitors Accepted
Visitor Process: Please contact OpenSourceEcology@gmail.com if you are interested in visiting!
Statement of Housing Non-discrimination:
No Answer Provided
Population
Members(adults and children):
2
Open to new members:
Yes
Government
Decision Making:
Other
(Governance documents are being developed.)
Labor and Money
Labor Contribution:
Expected
(6 hrs/day)
Land and Buildings
Rural
Area:
40 acres (16.2 hectares)
Number of Residences:
3
(more currently being built (you can build your own too!))
Food, etc.
Percentage of Food Grown:
21-50%
Share Community Meals:
Nearly all meals
Dietary Choice or Restrictions:
Diet is up to each individual
Tobacco Use:
Seldom used
Social Factors
Common Spiritual Practices:
No
 
 
World's First Open Source Tractor (in its natural environement)
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Marcin, Ama, and Nate
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