CURRENT GOALS OF UNDERSTANDING AND
ACHIEVING 99% SUSTAINABILITY
Our goals are to understand how a garden or mini-farm
can:
- Produce all of its own compost material initially
without having to import any straw, manure, or other
carbonaceous material for the soil’s humus
sustainability - Maintain nutrient sustainability
How to Design for Your Soil’s Fertility
In order to more easily sustain the fertility of your soil
and decrease the space necessary to produce a large
percentage or your entire diet in the smallest area,
Ecology Action recommends that you:
- Maintain approximately 60% of your growing area in
carbon-and-calorie crops that produce large amounts
of carbon for compost and that also produce food in
the form of significant amounts of calories. Legumes
can also be interplanted to produce immature biomass
and fix nitrogen in the soil if they are harvested at
50% flower.^2 - Grow approximately 30% in special root diet crops
that produce large amounts of calories in limited space