The Garden of Eden Project:
SAMPLE PARCEL D1
~ 80 PEOPLE ON 40 ACRES ~
~ DESCRIPTION ~
The PICTORIAL D1 color graphic that you see is a design for a 40 acre piece of agricultural land
that can be transformed into a living landscaped community for 80 people. That averages out to be
1/2 of an acre per person, which gives each person much more space than the average city person.
The NUMBERED OBJECTS in this pictorial are various buildings and structures described briefly in
TABLE #1 and are described in detail in
Description of NUMBERED OBJECTS.
The groups of circles of GREEN DOTS are orchards of various fruit and nut trees. Each circle is a
different type of tree. Also, the distance between the dots is accurate to the scale
of the drawing, but the size of the dot is not accurate. These trees are named by
their corresponding lowercase letter of the alphabet in the FRUIT & NUT TREE CIRCLES
link HERE and to the left of the picture. There is
more information on the trees in the TABLE #6: Fruit & Nut Tree
RIPENING MONTHS link to the left of the picture, also. There is in-depth information on
these trees in:TABLE #7: Fruit & Nut TREES, 15 YEAR YIELD
ESTIMATES.
The information is based on recommended planting distances taken from reliable sources, as noted
in these tables. TABLE #7 also gives other data on the fruit trees (like: yield, in pounds, per
tree; circle diameter; etcetera). Study TABLE #7 very carefully, as there is much information
shown there, and you'll probably be very lucky if you find this information anywhere else! It
took a lot longer than you might think to gather all this information together!
The trees used in this part of the plan would work in many areas of California and other areas of
the United States and the world. However, you should check with your local nursery for specific
varieties and data for your area. You could create your own information, and create a custom
design using your own favorite trees. After the firmaments1
are constructed everyone will be able to grow even tropical fruits all over the world.
If you add up the square footage of all the structural items in one of the far right columns of
TABLE #1 (shown below), you see that it comes to 315,497 square feet, or about 7.24 acres, which is
about 18% of the land! So that means that about 82% of the TOTAL land is left over for other
purposes. For the first few years, most of this "left over" land could be used to grow ONE SEASON
CROPS, HERBS, GRAPES, and BERRIES, if that's what the community wants.
Study TABLE #1 to get a good idea of how much area is used for NON-CROP AREAS.
Then study TABLE #2 and TABLE #3 (further down) to see how the remaining acreage is used for
the crops and how the acreage is distributed among the various main crop groups. Also look at
TABLE #8: and
TABLE #9 for more detailed information on sample
crop plans with specific: ONE-SEASON CROPS (vegetables, melons, grains, legumes); GRAPES;
HERBS; and BERRIES designed from average yield data from reliable sources as noted there.
You will probably have to rely heavily on the one-season crops for a while. So your one-season crops may have to sustain you for a few years, but eventually your fruit trees will start to produce big yields! Look at TABLE #7: Fruit & Nut TREES, 15 YEAR YIELD ESTIMATES. to see more specifically what kind of yields you might expect from them. Beyond that point in time, you will probably have extra fruit, which can be sold, bartered or given away!
If you wanted to gradually become a fruitarian, what more gradual way is there than this? It will take a few years for the fruit to multiply on the fruit trees, so meanwhile you eat the "vegetable" crops that you want (and/or "small fruit" crops like: melons, strawberries, cucumbers, etcetera). Then as the fruit trees gradually grow over the years, you will gradually, naturally start to eat the more plentiful fruit from the trees, as they grow up. (By the way, this is a plan that would accommodate all the foods in The Mucusless Diet Healing System.)
So now we see that we certainly do have plenty of room for high quality organic
food and recreation!
One thing that is often overlooked, initially, in planning an organic community is the issue of
how to deal with human waste or excrement. Click on this link
SAMPLE EXCREMENT BURIAL PLAN DESCRIPTION to see the plan I've devised.
The 40 acre area here, shown in PICTORIAL D1, unfortunately would not have much
room for larger animals, like deer and mountain lions, although there could be places for wild
animals to habitate outside the 40-acre area. However, part of the Garden of Eden concept is
that by most humans living a Garden of Eden lifestyle, similar to this, much of the land that is
currently being used for livestock raising (which is half the land mass of the planet),
and some of the land being used for unnecessary industrial purposes, could be restored similar
to the wild condition that it once was. Then wildlife may be able to flourish once again on 80%
of the land on earth, leaving 10% for the Garden of Eden lifestyle and 10% for cities, as is
described in the
What Is the Garden of Eden Project? paper.
LINKS:
Intentional Communities Website
Footnote:
1 The term "firmament" is a term found in the book of Genesis in the
Bible. However, not much is said about it there. In the book entitled: Your First Contact,
by Sheldan Nidle, the word "firmament" is described as a layer of ice 15,000 feet above the
surface of the Earth, and covering the entire planet! The purpose of it was to create a "greenhouse",
and as a result the entire surface of the Earth was like a tropical paradise! This undoubtedly was
the time of the "Garden of Eden" mentioned in the Bible. The oceans were much smaller then
because much of the water on Earth was used for the firmaments (there were actually 2 firmaments).
There were no big thunderstorms like today, no hurricanes, no tornadoes, etcetera. The cause of
the Great Flood was due to the destruction of the firmaments during a great war on Earth. The
flood wiped out all the ancient records of our past very advanced civilizations, and so the Bible
that we know today was written mostly from just memory. Much technology was also lost in the flood,
so the Bible had to be hand written. That is why so very little is known about our true ancestory
and past history. For more information, the book is featured at this link:
Planetary Activization Organization.