1Overview

  • Abundance does not always mean producing more.
  • Abundance sometimes means getting satisfied with less.
  • Our goal is not isolation, but to establish an abundance mindset so that everyone follows what excites them most (what they truly want to do). Then, people will have wealth (satisfaction) without money, and then they will value money less.

2Step 1: Pilot project: Feeding

2.1Overview

  • I have an idea similar to The Venus Project, but more realizable and with smaller scope.
  • This pilot project aims to determine whether it is possible for one man to feed himself with 100 m2 low-tech low-effort ecological engineering (permaculture, do-nothing farming).
  • At first, only some people can participate; otherwise the seed will be destroyed before it blossoms. Later, the environment should help more people progress spiritually.

2.2Determine whether it is possible in theory

  • Calculate how much land can produce per square meter in normal condition with minimal maintenance.

2.3.1What

2.3.2Dasar-dasar hukum pertanahan

2.3.3Kerumitan PT beli tanah

(doesn't matter; I'm not establishing a company.)

2.4Find, buy, and fence a patch of land satisfying these criteria

  • Can use real-estate agents or online marketplaces; or survey some unknown/unsurveyed land / terra incognita.

2.4.1Biogeochemical cycle

  • The land must be a part of a life-conducive biogeochemical cycle; sufficient in common limiting nutrients such as phosphate and rare-earth minerals.
  • The land must have enough water: at least one of perennial stream, perennial rainfall (is there such thing?), or groundwater.
    • That Wikipedia article gives some hints on how to test whether a stream is perennial: see the indicators.
    • Can groundwater/aquifer water plant (like potatos, not rice field / sawah)?
  • Mesopotamia1 "was a good place to start a civilisation because it had fertile farmland and water from the rivers to provide transportation and a water source." (emphasis mine)
  • Zachary Newell's answer
  • Soil important parameters: water retention; damp but not waterlogged?

2.4.2Other requirements

  • Area and shape requirements:
    • The land must have an area of at least 100 m2 and at most 10,000 m2. Too small, not enough production. Too big, the man may be unable to defend.
    • The land should be encloseable/fenceable.
    • The land should be square-shaped.
  • must have some support systems and be not too far from civilization
    • must be adjacent to a river that is unpolluted and will not be polluted
      • (Is private irrigation illegal?)
    • must have fertile soil (subsumed by biogeochemical cycle requirement above)
    • must be adjacent to public road (or not gravel road)
    • not too far from warteg/food seller
  • low disaster risk
    • not affected by landslide, forest fires and their smoke, etc.
    • occasional earthquakes are OK, but not soil liquefaction
    • far enough (at least 5 km) from terrorist nests, things that may explode (chemical factories, oil rigs, bomb-making terrorist villages), xenophobes/radical-Muslims/anti-Chinese
    • floods?
    • not near/among low-vibration people such as religious extremists and gratuitous thiefs
  • Nice to haves (optional criteria, OK if not satisfied)
    • Should not too close to any mosques. (Noise issues.)
    • Does not have to be in Jakarta or even in Indonesia.
    • Should be close to forest/woodlands and metal ores?

2.5Find a vehicle satisfying these criteria

3Step 2: Developing

3.1Engineer the ecology

3.2TODO Grow some bioindicators? How do we test soil quality? By trying to grow a cheap plant (such as grass) on it first.

Which ones?

Guard plant Sentinel plant Indicator plant pH indicator plant

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/info/plant-indicator-info.htm

3.3TODO Read?

3.4Procedures, instructions, steps, planting times, what to plant, for beginner

3.5TODO Alat-alat / tools

  • spade, sekop
  • sepatu bot
  • meteran
  • tong sampah bertutup untuk kompos; atau turnable compost bin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVVokyVZQHE
    • atau pakai gentong nganggur di dapur
  • gerobak, trolley, wheelbarrow
  • sarung tangan kebun (bukan sarung tangan medis latex yang di apotik); reusable garden gloves, not use-once throw-away medical gloves
  • masker
  • pitchfork/rake, to turn over compost
  • semprotan / spray / atomizer
  • soil thermometer
  • (no longer applies) pot tanaman, tapi jangan terlalu besar; pastikan orang masih bisa angkat pot itu dengan isinya
  • hose
  • trash can / recycle bin / compost bin
  • Waterproof/weatherproof/Heavy-duty/Industrial/Durable labels; what do you call it?
  • manual seeder / hand-cranked seeder; can use a box/container/bottle with some small holes, and shake it; or just use the hand
    • mix the seed randomly, and sow them, because Nature knows best; can use

3.6More

  • Install solar electric generators.
  • Build a house/shelter/settlement.
    • Prefab?
    • Must have walls and roofs.
  • Permaculture (do-nothing-farm) the land.
  • Prevent malaria.
  • The worst thing that could happen is that we become more resilient against money; our land will always feed us even if the value of money plummets to hell.

4Step 3: Attracting high-vibration people

  • Probably retirees.

5Step 4: Attracting and helping low-vibration people

6Other people's projects

6.1The Venus Project

7Abundance Society Feasibility Study

7.1Land requirements

  • Near river.
  • Near road.
  • Have electricity and some Internet (no YouTube is OK).
  • Legal constraints. Zoning, control, irrigation, etc.

7.2Land area requirements

Assumptions:

  • SP = small plant. An SP is a potato, tomato, garlic, shallot, onion, sesame, green bean, long bean, kangkung, spinach, kecombrang, keciwis, broccoli, soy, or something like those.
  • The system has closed biogeochemical cycle.
  • A man eats 2 meals per day.
  • Each meal is made with 8 kinds of SPs, but each SP makes 2 meals, so a meal is effectively made with 4 SPs. Thus, the man eats 8 SPs per day.
  • Each SP takes 1/4 m2 and 120 days to grow. Thus, the man needs to have 480 SPs in the field, for a total of 120 m2.

Question:

  • How many m2 does that man need to sustain himself? Answer: 240 m2.

  • A man lives in a car. He brings a heat source (portable stove with propane canisters). He brings cooking utensils. He washes himself and his stuff in a river.

  • It takes about 10 minutes to walk 400 m (the perimeter of a 100 m x 100 m land).

A square is a rectangle that minimizes the ratio between its area and its perimeter?

1 hectares less than Rp 100 million

The easiest farming difficulty: plant perennials near a river

How do we trade some of our production for some money? Pasar kopro mechanism?

https://survlivel.cultu.be/how-many-m2-4-self-sustainable

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