First commit of FLOWS Aquaponic module at http://code.google.com/p/flowsaquaponic/

The
owner of the property, who lives in the house in front of the small
farm, approached Jeff Newman of Steel City Soils about setting up a
member-owner farm. In March, the land behind the house was simply a
lawn. Today, the sod has been torn up and composted, and the yard
is planted with peppers, tomatoes, cabbages, peas, radishes, and other
produce.

“We
want more people to get rid of their lawns and eat their backyards,”
said Newman, whose truck sports an “Eat Your Backyard” sticker.
The member-owner setup of the farm means that Newman does maintenance

Crop mob is a group of young, landless, and wannabe farmers who come together to build and empower communities by working side by side.

In the past farming was much more labor intensive. Activities like planting, harvesting, processing, and barnraising often required the collective effort of entire communities. This interdependence fostered strong communities. As farming became more mechanized and reliant on petroleum based inputs, it became a more independent and solitary career. Today in the industrial farming system a few people may manage hundreds or even thousands of acres.

In 2006, PASA began a project called the Regional Food Infrastructure Network (RFIN) to identify core infrastructure problems and their potential solutions. Throughout the process, PASA helped build many partnerships to improve profitability for local farmers while providing greater access to local foods for consumers. This project has gained increasing momentum over the past 3 years, and has positioned PASA to continue its role in leading the local food revolution. We have now grown beyond the role of simply investigating the network to a role of fostering FoodShed Solutions.

The MARC formats are standards for the representation and communication of bibliographic
and related information in machine-readable form.

Greg from PASA asks if we can implement this, or evaluate it for Foodshed Architecture