Food production

Providing everyone with healthy food without harming the environment will become increasingly challenging. In 2040 there will be 9 billion people to feed. Food demands will change, emerging economies will require more meat and at the same time certain limited resources such as water and phosphate will have to be managed sustainably.

A designed community is a good way to start healthy food production and make an example for the rest of the world. But how should this work? What kind of elements do you need to produce your own food supply? What kind of things can we use out of the modern society and at what point is it better to look back at the history of gathering your own food? Do we need a bakery, butchery and vegetable farmer? Are their Raw material that can not be produced on a small basis?

The modern food industry is a global collective of diverse businesses that supplies most of the food consumed by the world population. Only subsistence farmers, those who survive on what they grow, and hunter-gatherers can be considered outside the scope of the modern food industry. The businesses process raw materials such as agricultural products on an industrial scale in to the food as we know that are sold in the supermarkets.

Farmers nowadays are slaves of the industry. The need the expand if the companies want them to. If they don’t they will lose their contract and there point of sale. The have gig debts because of the investments and need to produce a lot before the can replay.

There are more and more negative sines agents our food industry. It is unhealthy, people are addicted to sugar and a lot of things are added in our food. Think of: color, flavors, preservatives and artificial flavors. The foods in our food is less and less due to different editing processes.

Mass production is not the way to go

There is another negative occurrence and that is packaging of food, that causes a lot of (plastic) waste. We could design a system in our community so that it becomes less.

How can we provide our own food supply?

A good example are the already existing city vegetable gardens. Where people in the city without a garden can still grow their own vegetables, herbs and fruit on a small piece of land. A positive occurrence of gardening is the social aspect and it could also be a good thing to feel mentally healthy.

Divide food into different groups: Grains Vegetables Herbs Fruit

And different ways of growing, think of: Tree, bush and soil vegetation.

The future of food production, watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sec7l9rj6A Also a good example of playful learning in the outside!