| The Green Menagerie is being planned for upstate South Carolina. This community will center around a self-sufficient organic farm that will serve as an environmental research and education center to promote the use of ecologically sustainable food, building and energy technologies.
Production options include:
Livestock
Chickens
Meat
Eggs
Fertilizer
Ducks
Meat
Eggs
Geese
Meat
Eggs?
Turkey
Meat
Goats
Milk
Milk soap
Meat
Cheese
Fertilizer
Cattle
Milk
Butter
Cheese
Meat
Soap
Fertilizer
Pigs
Meat
Tilapia, greenhouse production; I doubt that growing tilapia outside would be practical in Georgia’s climate so pond culture wouldn’t be an option
Meat
Cat food
Fertilizer (water used to grow tilapia in tanks can be used to irrigate plants and fish byproducts could be used as fertilizer)
Crayfish, climate permitting
Meat
Fertilizer?
Catfish
Meat
Cat food
Earthworms
Fishing bait
Kitchen compost fertilizer
Honeybee
Honey
Beeswax
Candles
Cosmetics
Vegetables
Garden, year round
Hydroponic greenhouse, winter (in conjunction with tilapia)
Tree fruits
Apple
Pear
Peach
Plum
Cherry?
Nectarine?
Tree nuts
Pecan
Walnut, climate permitting
Grapes
Berry
Blackberry
Blueberry
Strawberry
Bush cherries, climate permitting
Currant, climate permitting
Christmas trees
Christmas floral (components as well as ready-made wreaths and arrangements)
Cedar
Pine
Box
Holly
Yew
Alpine Currant
Dogwood
Poinsettia
Forced Dutch bulbs
Grapevine
Herbs
Medicinal
Culinary
Aromatic
Flowers
Cut flowers
Potpourri
Roses
Cut flowers
Potpourri
Medicinal ingredients for herbal products
Other possible cash crops
Saplings
Bedding plants
Vegetable seedlings
Firewood
Fire-kindling kits
Scented pine cones
Energy
Solar
Hot water
Photovoltaic
Passive solar heating
Wind
Windmill, climate permitting
Biofuel
Vegetable oil crops
Recycled vegetable oil
Algae bioreactors
Fuel
Fertilizer
Animal feed
Methane digesters (provides a carbon-dioxide source for the algae bioreactors)
Fuel
Fertilizer
Publishing
Research reports
Annual gardening almanac
Building
Rammed earth
Strawbale
Earthbag
Papercrete
Compressed earth blocks
Seasonal agro-entertainment
Easter egg hunt
Independence Day picnic
Fall bazaar
Cut-your-own Christmas trees
Dog/cat show
Flower show
Possible recreational functions
Nature trails
Bird sanctuary
Fishing
In addition to the farm a living technology museum is being considered to explain the history and environmental impact of various technologies that are essential to a self-sustaining community. This will include things like making textiles and clothing; blacksmithing, shoemaking, barrel making, et cetera.
The community will be a not-for-profit organization. Any income that the community generates will be re-invested in the community or paid out as employee/director salaries.
The community will have 3 levels of membership. You can sign on as an employee and trade your labor for room and board and eventually receive a salary based on the community’s income. You can also simply rent the community’s land and facilities and operate as an independent farmer or craftsman. Persons seeking a position on the board of directors will have to invest at least $5,000 in the community’s infrastructure and provide three years of labor.
The Green Menagerie will be a family oriented community. Christians are preferred for membership, but Bible-thumping will be discouraged. Membership will be open to all regardless of race or national origin. Tobacco will be forbidden and alcohol will be allowed only in moderation and will be limited to what the community itself can produce.
Please contact jeaflor@yahoo.com | 
