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Open Source Ecology

Building Functional, Sustainable Agriculture in Wisconsin

An Interview with Brittany Gill by Rebeccah Kessel (Sustainable Eating Magazine)

"I love watching things grow. I put a seed in the ground and then
there’s this plant and then there’s this tomato on this plant. It makes
me think of life and beauty and purpose and growth," states Brittany
Gill, co-partner of the emerging organization Open Source Ecology.

And watching things grow she has done, as she and her partner,
Marcin Jakubowski, have planted the seeds to create accessible and
sustainable ways of living. With hard work, and some help, the roots of
their organization are starting to take hold and their powerful vision
is coming closer to sprouting into a reality.

Brittany allowed me to talk to her about Open
Source Ecology, its connection into the bigger picture, and what she
envisions for its future.

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These days we are struggling with finding a way to communicate the message of  the work at openfarmtech.org. Brittany and Vinay Gupta (hexayurt.com) have been slashing through the thicket of expression choices to narrow down the message so it could be understood by others. The goal is to attract interest in a few, dedicated co-developers. I am convinced that such co-developers exist, yet, for some reason, they are not appearing as I would expect they should.

The website at openfarmtech.org started as a finite but comprehensive Global Village Construction Set. This concept started earlies at the Worknets.org wiki, under http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?OpenSourceEcology. It was there that some of the technology on the Compressed Earth Block Press and the Sawmill were posted. The focus is technologies that are necessary for the infrastructure of a Global Village community, akin to Franz Nahrada's concept at globalvillages.info.

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Imagine a village with buildings of dirt (CEB) with year-round greenhouses (sawmill, CEB, bioplastics from local trees), with all
facility energy produced by a solar turbine, where people drive hybrid cars with car bodies (bioplastics) made from local weeds, with critical motors and metal structures (aluminum) extracted from on-site clay, which are fueled by alcohol produced on-site, on a wireless
network linked to the greater world. That's just a sampling of the technology base. Food, energy, housing sufficiency. There are no poor among us – because we are all evolving human beings and farmer scientists.

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Open Source Ecology Sustainable Investment Group LLC is a for-profit company used to fund the non-profit company Open Source Ecology, Inc. It will raise money through this offering to acquire land and build a hydroponic lettuce greenhouse. The Company will sell greenhouse produce and sustainably-harvested lumber. The company will also engage in marketing of other sustainable products from its affiliates. Here's the financial offering plan (s.c.o.r.)

OSE SIG S.C.O.R.