What is a Food Web? The Food Web is a holistic approach towards small scale food production. Basically, it's a way to increase efficiency and yields by integrating your livestock. If you are going to raise chickens on your homestead, you should design connections and interactions between other animals to decrease feed inputs and labor.
Poultry are a big part of the food web, because of their many benefits and outputs. They are also inexpensive to raise, and outperform many other animals. But, they can increase the efficiency of other animals, like pigs and rabbits, with a few key integrations.
We're building a Food Web here in Northern Mexico as a working example and sort of an open classroom for the struggling farmers in our area. We are documenting this project in a book, titled Food Web. It will provide instructions for people to be able to design and create their own Food Webs, depending on their unique situations and circumstances.
We need help to get the project off the ground, so we've launched a crowdfunding campaign here: http://www.indiegogo.com/foodweb
Come check it out, and help us promote a simple, real world example of sustainable farming!
We've been living off the grid for more than a decade. Part of our lifestyle is sharing our experiences, so that others may find some inspiration or information in their own projects.
Check out a list of our Homesteading How-To's:
http://velacreations.com/foodweb/howtos
We've also got a dedicated poultry section on our site, where we share different aspects of raising poultry:
http://www.velacreations.com/food/animals/poultry.html
Poultry are a big part of the food web, because of their many benefits and outputs. They are also inexpensive to raise, and outperform many other animals. But, they can increase the efficiency of other animals, like pigs and rabbits, with a few key integrations.
We're building a Food Web here in Northern Mexico as a working example and sort of an open classroom for the struggling farmers in our area. We are documenting this project in a book, titled Food Web. It will provide instructions for people to be able to design and create their own Food Webs, depending on their unique situations and circumstances.
We need help to get the project off the ground, so we've launched a crowdfunding campaign here: http://www.indiegogo.com/foodweb
Come check it out, and help us promote a simple, real world example of sustainable farming!
We've been living off the grid for more than a decade. Part of our lifestyle is sharing our experiences, so that others may find some inspiration or information in their own projects.
Check out a list of our Homesteading How-To's:
http://velacreations.com/foodweb/howtos
We've also got a dedicated poultry section on our site, where we share different aspects of raising poultry:
http://www.velacreations.com/food/animals/poultry.html
