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  Food Raising:
   

1. Up to 600 acres might be available for food growing.

2. Homes would be landscaped with edible plants (permaculture) and small gardens drip or hand irrigated from house gray water.

3. Cottage Industry:  Each home will produce enough food to feed its inhabitants for the entire year. This is easily doable by using the Square Foot Gardening method. The only labor required to do this is daily watering and harvesting. These small gardens will be located alongside each house.               See Cottage Industry

3. Possibly contract with a local farmer to purchase organically grown foods not raised by the village.

4. Possibly lease a field and provide the labor to work it.

5. Visit U-Pick farms during season.

6. Clusters would use food scraps to make compost.
  Food Storage:
    1. Most residents could be available at harvest for picking.

2. Harvested food could be canned in jars or frozen. This would be absent most preservatives in foods currently purchased.

3. A walk-in freezer would have a moveable wall for efficiency. Frozen foods would be consumed first then jarred foods.
  Food Savings:
   

All of the above might bring our food costs down to about 20% of what we are experiencing now.

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