[p2p-research] free lunch?

[Michel Bauwens]

Hi Patrick,

it's fine for me, though we usually don't publish projects and plans, but
it's not a unbendable rule,

but I would add some intro paragraph so readers know a little more context
and where this is coming from,

Michel

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Patrick Anderson <agnucius at gmail.com>wrote:

> Rough draft of Stage0 toward Citizen Owned Production
>
>
> Most every home and business owner dedicates Land, Water, Tools and
> Labor tending non-productive plants while productive plants are
> shunned because:
>
> 1.) The owner does not have the time and skill to maintain these more
> sensitive organisms and the complex ecosystem they should enjoy.
>
> 2.) The owner does not have the time and skill and equipment to
> harvest, process and store those products.
>
> 3.) There is usually "too much" of each of those products for a single
> owner, and so much of the harvest goes to waste, causing logistic
> problems of 'mess' and also some psychological trauma.
>
>
> But there are many people in need of food that *do* have the time and
> skills we need.
>
> How to pair them up?  And how to make it worth the owners' trouble?
>
> We do this by noticing the profound value in the product itself.
>
> We strike a deal between owners and workers thus:
>
>
> A.) We will install beautiful yet productive plants for the same price
> as non-productive plants.
>
> B.) We will contract with you to tend those plants and harvest the
> products in perpetutity at NO COST to you except we will retain some %
> of that harvest as payment.
>
> C.) We will optionally process and store your % at NO COST to you
> except we will retain some further % of that harvest as payment.
>
> D.) We will optionally prepare your % into advanced solutions, even
> fully prepared meals at NO COST to you except we will retain some %
> further of that harvest as payment.
>
>
> For example, if the owner allows us to plant 4 Pecan trees, he can
> receive 4 bushels of unshelled Pecans, or 2 bushels of shelled Pecans,
> or 1 bushel of shelled Pecans stored by us, or 8Pecan pies, or 4 pecan
> pies stored by us, or 2 fancy pecan-chicken dinners, etc.
>
>
> The owners want landscaping; we will give them permascaping.
>
> But instead of a one-time installation that the owners must then fret
> about, we continue service of those organisms in perpetuity and manage
> the outputs to whatever degree those owners decide.
>
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