ABOUT

Home-Grown Food Network has discovered the importance of a small and immediate environment around us that allows us to unfold in freedom and self-determination. This environment is one that still has its own traditional sophistication, often forgotten. This environment used to be “the village”, which is often connotated with terms like “miserable”, “dumb” and “poor”. We aim to retrieve the village as a form of small human settlement embedded in a natural surrounding, but we want to make it smart and abundant.

We are seeking new ways of composting, recycling, planting, building, producing, that feedback in a non-toxic way into the sources of life. Human presence and interest is required to do that, and therefore we plan to create communities where people live a more decentralized life, assimilated to the exciting possibilities of every kind of landscape, spreading but not sprawling, gentle and dense at the same time, lean and green, connected by the virtual networks of united problem-solving. These we consider to be an interesting and essential element of our planet's future.

and so the mission of Home-Grown Food Network is to

Promote affordable building and energy use;
Promote the sharing of ideas about the future of gardening as a means of securing the food supply needed in the future;
Be the focus of ideas and a place where information regarding food growing can be exchanged.
Foster good gardening using technology and sustainable natural farming methods.
Do the research and compile and publish information obtained through documenting production, improvement in the soil, amount of "waste" saved from landfills, changes in microclimates, amount of water used, and hours of work required;