Factor e Farm is the land-based facility where we put the theory of Open Source Ecology into practice. Agricola sum. We are farmer scientists - 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. 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.

In these pages you will find the unfolding story of how we started with raw land, and what we are up to on an ongoing basis. 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? If so, would you support it?

Read more about the project at the Open Source Ecology Development Wiki.

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