Initially started for Saint Maur, a logging of my "advances" in practical gardening.
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Synthetic Farming
Principle
Replace an animal farm by synthetic biology, thus synthetic farming
Justification
- To survive we eat and that builds the Wikipedia:Food chain (trophic web) structured through local Wikipedia:Bioavailability.
- This energy is in the form of chemical so if we consider animals for their actual functions a farm is a chemical factory.
- The concept of "farm" should thus leverage Wikipedia:Synthetic biology
Notes on economy
- Animals through their functions are chemical machines but also with roles in the human economy.
- Theoretically the two should match not just in agricultural countries but for every country.
- It makes extremely complex trophic webs
- e.g having a nice tshirt to look pro to get paid more to have a better flat to get access to better food instead of farming better food yourself
- Surplus allowed for such complexification of the trophic web but no matter how complex the situation is it still boils down to survival cost efficient access to air, water and food which are chemicals.
- the infrastructure is well tailored for animal farming the way it is, thus cheap despite possible inefficiencies
Remarks
- the evolutionary process is extremely efficient thus hard to beat, even by bypassing functions and removing useless organs or organels
- yet it changes as a specific pace that could potentially be improve through a mix of evolutionary methods and modern design methods but especially knowing the current environment that wasn't available until now
See also
To do
- consider moving to Biology
Compost
See also
- my notes on An Orchard Invisible: A natural history of seeds by Jonathan Silvertown, Chicago University Press 2007
- "jardinerie" in Saint-Maur and in Paris according to Les Pages Jaunes, thanks to their dedicated Choisir une jardinerie website
- Graine de Jardinier, in Saint-Maur since 2004
- An Orchard Invisible, A Natural History of Seeds by Jonathan Silvertown, April 2009
- 10 Best Shade Plants by Rachel Hartman
- our related projects
- Plant Propagation - Taking Mint Cuttings The Really Really Easy Way 2006
- Herbs - raise new mint plants, BBC Gardeners' World 2009
- How to be a gardener - part 1 and part 2, BBC 2002
- Make it Grow - Plant Growth Investigator, Digital Agriculture Virtual Observatory, NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign