One of the most frequent criticisms leveled against the sustainable agriculture movement is that its proponents want to send farmers back to 19th-century hard labor, with hand weeding and harvesting. Here's an incredibly cool group of eco-minded "farmer-scientists" who aren't in the least afraid of technology -- and in fact believe in "creating industrial processes that are fully in harmony with ecologically responsible living."
Open Source Ecology members live most of the year on Factory e Farm, a 30-acre former soybean farm in Missouri, "where we put the theory of Open Source Ecology into practice ... We paid our last electricity bill three years ago. We are getting our power from waste vegetable oil and the sun. We drink pure free rain water. We grow most of our food. We are free. Welcome to our life. We want to help others do the same. Decentralization. Regain control of your life."
Global Village Construction Set in 2 Minutes from Marcin Jakubowski on Vimeo.
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