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  • Start here
  • Books to read
  • Feed yourself and your village
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Planning

2
  • Yeomans Scale of Permanence
  • Keyline Design

Production Systems

6
  • Aquaponics

    11
  • Permaculture

    21
  • Intensive Farming

    8
  • Extensive Farming

    2
  • Garden

    32
  • Water Plant Farming

    3
  • Dry Grasslands

    8
  • Sprout Feed

    1
  • Food Forest

    14
  • Urban Agriculture

    2
  • Regenerative Agriculture

    1
  • Agroforestry

    1
  • Keyline Design
  • Water-Efficient Plant Selection
  • Transform Your Backyard: Simple Greywater Food Circles.
  • How Windbreaks Can Save Water, Soil and Crops in Harsh Climates
  • Contour Farming
  • Regenerative Agriculture

Infrastructure

39
  • Building/sealing earth dams
  • Shadehouse
  • Greenhouse
  • Drip Irrigation
  • Water cooler
  • Tannery
  • Slaughter Room & Cold Room
  • House built of Mushroom waste
  • Managing fire risk
  • Recycle Waste Water
  • Compressed Earth Blocks/Bricks (CEB) House
  • Chicken House (Coop)
  • Greywater System
  • Sandbag House
  • Bamboo
  • Root Cellar
  • Namibian Suppliers
  • Tools & Robots
  • Swales
  • Hugelkultur
  • Microdams/ Half-moons
  • Biogas Plant
  • Rainwater Harvesting in Arid Regions: Practical Solutions for Water Security in Southern Africa
  • Terracing
  • Clay Pipes & Ollah Pots
  • Food Forest
  • Coldroom – Chiller
  • Worm farm, bin or bath
  • Waffle Garden
  • Rock dams
  • Hemp
  • Natural Swimming Pool
  • Fly Trap
  • Mushroom drum
  • Gabions & Check dams
  • Cob Building
  • Air-Prune Beds for Agroforestry Tree Seedlings
  • Fog Harvesting: A Sustainable Water Source for Farming on the Namib Coast
  • Shieldboxes

Animals

1
  • Cattle

    4
  • Sheep

    4
  • Poultry

    4
  • Horses & Donkeys

    2
  • Goats

    2
  • Rabbits

    1
  • Fish

    4
  • Feed

    13
  • Domestic Animals

Vegetables

39
  • Favored Vegetables
  • Beans
  • Beetroot
  • Cabbage
  • Carrots
  • Cucumbers
  • Onions
  • Peppers
  • Pumpkin
  • Radish
  • Lettuce
  • Spinach
  • Strawberries
  • Sweet Melon
  • Sweet Potatoes
  • Tomatoes
  • Watermelon
  • Cowpea
  • Comfrey
  • Zuchini – Marrows – Summer squash
  • Broadbeans – Fava Beans
  • Butternut
  • Peas
  • Broccoli
  • Cauliflower
  • Garlic
  • Spring Onions
  • Turnip
  • Roselle hibiscus
  • Purslane
  • Spider Plant
  • Okra
  • Kale
  • Chard
  • Amaranth
  • Bitter Melon (Bitter Gourd)
  • Chillies
  • Cassava (Manioc)
  • Micronutrients

Trees

18
  • Citrus

    5
  • Fruit Trees

    25
  • Nut Trees

    1
  • Micronutrients
  • Growing trees in the desert
  • Winter Plant Protection
  • Neem tree
  • Macadamia
  • Spekboom
  • Kiri trees
  • Prosopis
  • Moringa
  • Leucaena (Wonderboom)
  • Velvet Beans – Mukuna
  • Almonds
  • Coppicing and Pollarding
  • Miyawaki method
  • Air-Prune Beds for Agroforestry Tree Seedlings
  • Air-Prune Beds – A Practical Guide for Agroforestry
  • Tipuana tipu
  • Pruning

Insects

14
  • Bees
  • Black Soldier Fly Larvae (Maggots)
  • House fly maggots & meal
  • Critical Guide to Organic Pest Control in Southern Africa: Proven Natural Solutions for Healthier Crops
  • Dubia Roaches
  • Turkestan Cockroach
  • Superworms
  • Mealworms
  • Fly Trap
  • Aphids
  • Organic Fertilizer
  • Ladybirds (or lady-beetles or ladybugs)
  • How to Control Soft Bugs Organically
  • Insects for Homestead Chicken & Fish Feed

Grains/Starch

7
  • Mielies/Maize
  • Potatoes
  • Mahangu
  • Sorghum
  • Fonio
  • Sugar Cane
  • Sweet Sorghum

Preparing & Storing Food

3
  • Wine
  • Fermenting
  • Preserving food in a sustainable way

Business Ideas

41
  • 50 Businesses to Start With Nearly No Money
  • Agave & Agave Alcohol
  • Intensive Sheep Production
  • Commercial Aquaponics
  • Candles
  • Tannery
  • Soap
  • Potato vodka
  • Make pallet furniture
  • Open a hair salon
  • Commission-Only Sales
  • Shoe repair business
  • Sell vegetables
  • Sell high value crops
  • Sanitation
  • Regenerative chicken farming
  • Jojoba
  • Exotic Mushrooms
  • Coral
  • Freshwater Shrimp & Prawns
  • Wood Vinegar
  • Bamboo
  • Prosopis
  • Jatropha
  • Make Cheese
  • Leather
  • Opuntia farming
  • Growing Mushrooms
  • 50 more business ideas suitable for a small village
  • Rabbits
  • Tribulus Terrestris in Sports & Medicine
  • Marula Oil
  • Paint
  • Pet food
  • Community Gardening
  • Snails for Market
  • Biochar
  • Organic Fertilizer
  • Funding
  • Kalahari Melon (Tsjammas) – A Namibian Treasure for Food, Oil and Income
  • Turning Traditional Crops into Global Superfoods

Inputs/Outputs

15
  • Bone & Blood Meal
  • Leather
  • Chicken Manure
  • Sorghum
  • Blood meal
  • Fish meal
  • Kelp
  • Activated charcoal
  • Chemical Elements to know
  • Bonemeal
  • Kiri trees
  • Biochar
  • Organic Fertilizer
  • Organic Pesticides
  • Propagation

Mushrooms (fungi)

5
  • Fungi (Mushrooms)
  • Growing Mushrooms
  • Exotic Mushrooms
  • Mushroom grow room
  • Mushroom drum

Local plants

3
  • Black Jack
  • Marama – Huilboerboon
  • Kalahari Melon (Tsjammas) – A Namibian Treasure for Food, Oil and Income

Pests & Disease

21
  • Slugs & Snails
  • Fungal Diseases
  • Downy Mildew
  • Weeds
  • Tribulus Terrestris
  • Powdery Mildew
  • Critical Guide to Organic Pest Control in Southern Africa: Proven Natural Solutions for Healthier Crops
  • Stink Bugs
  • Nematodes
  • Fly Trap
  • Whey Spray (LAB) lactic acid bacteria
  • Aphids
  • Living in harmony with Baboons: A Practical Guide for Farmers and Communities
  • Organic Pesticides
  • Red Spider Mite
  • Locusts/ Grasshoppers
  • How to Control Soft Bugs Organically
  • Invasive Species in Namibia – Threat or Opportunity?
  • JADAM Pesticides
  • Cochineal
  • Hydrogen Peroxide in Organic and Regenerative Farming

Herbs

6
  • Black Jack
  • Spring Onions
  • Garlic
  • Ginger
  • Tithonia (Mexican Sunflower)
  • Marama – Huilboerboon

Natural Building

6
  • Paint
  • Roofing
  • Compressed Earth Blocks/Bricks (CEB) House
  • Hemp
  • Natural Building Methods
  • Cob Building

Coordination

13
  • Coordination (how we are as a society)
  • Circular Economy
  • Sociocracy
  • Alternative Currencies
  • Circular Economy
  • Doughnut Economics
  • Citizen Dashboards
  • Participatory Budgeting
  • The Swiss Federalism and Canton System
  • Bioregionalism:
  • Grassroots Economics and the Sarafu Network: A Powerful Model for Community Coordination in Kenya
  • Hawaii Land Management – Traditional Sustainable Land Use from Mountains to Sea
  • 🌍 Rethinking the System: 10 Books That Go Beyond Reform
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