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Back2Basics (B2B) Superstruct formed from 17 (and counting) Superstructs

Join the movement-tell us how your Superstruct fits into our plan!
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Back2Basics (B2B) formed from 17 Superstructs

 

Join the movement-tell us how your Superstruct fits into our plan!

 

Back 2 Basics has successfully merged 17 (and counting) Superstructs into the Back2Basics (B2B) Superstruct.

 

Repurposing the Suburbia lawn into ecofriendly communities

The Rooftop Cultivation Association

Worms for a More Nutritious Future

Share your seeds

Gypsy Farms

Urban Food Producers' Coop

Food for the People

Food Webbies

Artificial Pollination Resource Network

Bee Preservation Society

Victory Garden Support Organization

Seeds ATM

Own gardens

Rooftop to Kitchen

Appleseed

Home Brewing Knowledge Base

 

Here is what we think:

 

1.      Starting small/local  helps to get the kinks out of the initial idea

2.      Launch a pilot program documenting the pros and cons-keep a weekly journal of the progress

3.      Inventory all tools including people (experience is your greatest tool)

 

Repurposing the Suburbia lawn into ecofriendly communities merges with Victory Garden Support Organization , Own gardens and Free Food Free school! , Superstructs with the same general goals to redesign backyard into food producing spaces. Repurposing’s  major accomplishments include tearing down fences and building collaborative garden areas, repurposing garages into cultivating, canning, storing and drying areas and using prickly plants as a barrier for chemical runoff and to attract honeybees. The Rooftop Cultivation Association aim is the same as Repurposing only in cities where there is limited green space. Rooftop Cultivation and Rooftop to Kitchen are working together through the design, plant, cultivate, feed process. Their union will provide insight into successful urban gardening.  Repurposing and Rooftop will work together by sharing tools, seeds and starter plants. Rooftop will benefit from the Repurposing pilot program and possibly use the facilities to help build the mortar and tension garden boxes. Repurposing will use Food for the People to help educate the communities in design and cultivation of food. Worms for a More Nutritious Future will benefit Repurposing and Rooftop by teaching both Superstructs how to recondition the soil. This idea can be accomplished in rural and urban settings. We will connect Food for the People and Worms for a More Nutritious Future by educating the Food Superstruct on the process of sustaining worm beds. This would add to both Superstructs sustainability. Artificial Pollination Resource Network will be useful if Repurposing’s prickly plant design fails.  Either way, Artificial and Bee will provide backup to the communities who have experienced a substantial bee loss.  More investigation is needed, but there is a strong possibility that Artificial Pollination Resource Network and the Bee Preservation Society will merge into one sub-Superstruct within the B2B Superstruct. Share your seeds will also benefit Repurpose and Rooftop by providing heirloom seed education to both Superstructs. Also, a seed bank will be established for all working with the regreening effort. The Seeds ATM ideaand Share are restructuring the free seeds policy. Gypsy Farms like the Johnny Appleseed story and the pony express will supply a workforce to B2B. B2B will house Gypsy members in return. Gypsy will move seeds and starter plants between B2B coops. Gypsy will help with the Generation Exile movement-people who have no place-this is yet to be explored!

 

Urban Food Producers' Coop sounds like they have a better plan for inventory than Repurposing. The initial Repurposing charter turned into a daunting task. Repurposing is teaming up with Urban for assistance in this matter. Food Webbies will benefit the B2B Superstruct by enlisting “an open community in modeling the global food web to provide the kind of insights and forecasts that global climate change modeling has provided.” This is extremely important for all food growers especially with the noticeable climate changes. For example, In Indiana, the growing season seems to be moving later in the calendar year. In the past many crops are harvested in October, but this year the season started two months later (usually May) and is still going at the end of November, when we usually have experienced our first hard freeze or snowfall. Adding the Appleseed project to Urban and Food Superstructs will provide a starting place for data collection. This is vital for the B2B Superstruct so growth can be charted and adjusted as communities change.

 

And we cannot forget to celebrate our successes. That is why we are adding Home Brewing Knowledge Base to the B2B Superstruct. What is life without beer (and wine)?

Nov 15


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