Food Habitats

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Food Habitats

Feed An Island Food Habitats combine residence with food production in an island setting. Their unique design provides protection for both structure and plant from the elements. The sectioned torus shape of the structure deflects excessive wind creating a calm zone at the center of the habitat. In one version of the habitat, the calm zone plants grow in a geometric spiral and in another, a 30-foot circular tank grows fish. Food Habitats are designed to operate “off-the-grid” generating electrical power from the wind and sun. A shaded archway permits year-round production of sun-delicate plants like spinach and lettuce. One or more residences occupy a portion of the circular arch that encompasses the calm zone. A single residence habitat could be used to provide accommodation for operators of the farm. Larger Habitats with multiple residences could be offered as a temporary stay in an eco-style resort or sold as a qualifying investment for an island second residence and/or passport program.

Crop Circle Food Habitats

The circular design prompts the name Crop Circle Food Habitats, which coincides with the brand name of the agricultural technologies used by the structure to grow plants. All types of plants can be grown inside and/or outside the habitat. In larger habitats, sun-loving plants are grown in a circular courtyard surrounded by covered curved archways that grow plants in semi-shade. Crop Circle Irrigators grow plants using 90% less water compared to field farms and efficiency in design doubles production.

Single Residence Food Habitats

Single Residence Food Habitats provide accommodation for a crew or family that “works” the farm full-time for profit. A raised deck at the center of the habitat surrounds a 10-foot-deep fish tank. Storage, mechanical and a curved shelving area for growing mushrooms is provided under the deck. A shaded archway provides protection for sun delicate plants. A wind turbine and solar panel mounted on each of 20 support arches provide renewable energy. Single Residence Food Habitats require half an acre for the structure; more if plants are grown outside the habitat. There are two ways to grow plants outside the structure; the first is to grow plants in concentric circles around the habitat and second, grow plants in radiating rows that extend out from the habitat.

An underground residence is featured in our smallest Single Residence Food Habitat. There are several advantages to a below ground residence. For example, most of the covered archway can be used to grow food and the residence would be naturally cooled by native soil overtop.

Multiple Residence Food Habitats

Multiple Residence Food Habitats provide temporary stay eco resorts or permanent residency accommodation. Our largest Food Habitat requires 2 acres of land, more if crops are to be grown around the perimeter of the structure. Like Single Residence Food Habitats, crops may be grown in concentric circles or in radiating rows that extend out from the perimeter of the Habitat. A planted spiral covers an acre at the center of the Habitat surrounded by a common area where residents can gather to commune with nature. Residents would be invited to tend plants, pick their own food for lunch and dinner, or just wander through the spiral and relax.

A few select residences will feature decks that face the courtyard.

The courtyard spiral functions as a farm during the day and provides food for hundreds of people living on the island. The covered archway grows food for hundreds more.

AArch mounted wind turbines and solar panels provide power for the habitat. Arch mounted piping warmed by the sun provides hot water. A subterranean corridor stores seeds creating a “seed bank” for an entire island.

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Food Habitats

Food security is the measure of the availability of food and individuals' ability to access it. According to the United Nations' Committee on World Food Security, food security is defined as meaning that all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their food preferences and dietary needs for an active and healthy life.

There can be many causes for food insecurity, a changing climate, a devastating weather event, depletion of freshwater resources, soil degradation, insect infestations, over population, political upheaval, and economic hardship. A changing climate and devastating weather events are the most prevalent issues for island nations.

“Tuvalu is sinking,” Finance Minister Seve Paeniu proclaims of his island nation as he sits down for an interview with Yahoo News at the U.N. Climate Change Conference.

With a population of just over 11,000 residents, Tuvalu is an idyllic South Pacific atoll consisting of nine low-lying islands whose highest elevation is roughly 15 feet. Thanks to sea level rise, each year that elevation shrinks a little bit more.

“We are now living the climate change in Tuvalu, we are seeing land fast disappearing,” says Paeniu.

Other islands slowly sinking due to rising seas include some islands of the Republic Of Palau, Federated States of Micronesia and the Solomon Islands to name just a few.

Michael Manley, as Prime Minister of Jamaica, developed the slogan “Eat what you grow and grow what you eat”. He was one who championed the development of local agriculture and livestock. It never really caught on in Jamaica or in other Caribbean countries. Some countries took pride in the availability of foreign food items and sometimes considered it progress to have the same products and produce available in the Western developed countries.

In the aftermath of the pandemic, that slogan is now being espoused by governments throughout the Caribbean as they face the fragility of a dependence on “food shipped in from elsewhere”.

Throughout the inhabited islands of the world, food shortages are becoming more common, and the exorbitant cost of fresh produce means that some locals don’t eat or at least don’t eat as often as they should.

In unison, the governments of all island nations are taking action, addressing food security issues head on. Some are making more progress than others announcing initiatives to “grow locally” to lessen their dependence on imports. Most are looking for technologically modern ways to grow food that are compatible with the environment and sustainable in nature.

New ways to grow food must be introduced to islands that lack large contiguous tracts of land due mountainous topography and small plot land holdings. These new technologies must be simple to use, improve production and not pollute subterranean ground or river water with man-made fertilizers (it has been discovered that the runoff from artificial fertilizers is destroying coral reefs).

Shared community farming is being encouraged and governments hope to find an agricultural system that will promote that goal.

To Feed An Island you must first identify where the need is greatest. Typically, that need resides among the population that lives a distance from the resort communities developed along the coastal shorelines.

The fastest way to feed an island is to grow food right where people live.

Feed An Island agricultural technologies are scalable, that is to say they can be implemented to grow food for a family in using a small space in their yard, a village community garden or a small holder farm an acre or more in size.

The system is referred to as “remote agriculture”.

Remote agriculture can be defined as a “point of use” agricultural system that is deployed to grow food right where people live, eliminating the need for third-party price gouging, unnecessary storage, and expensive transport.

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