🌱 Food & Growing

Planned

⚙ Runs on the Forestry engine — apiary + fireweed-forage already tracked.

Year-round growing in a mountain climate — a walipíni, root cellars, a food forest, and the bees we already track.

The walipíni: growing through a Kootenay winter

A glass greenhouse loses its heat to a mountain night. A walipíni — a pit greenhouse dug into the earth, glazed on the sun-facing side — uses the ground's stable temperature to hold through frost. For this climate it's the right tool to extend the season hard at both ends, and it belongs on the south-facing commons ground (the same aspect logic as solar).

Storing the harvest

Root cellars dug into the cool earth store the harvest without power. A food forest on the disturbed, already-logged ground stacks fruit, nut, and berry over time — restoration that also feeds us.

We already keep bees

The Soteria Forestry engine already tracks an apiary and fireweed-forage provenance — and fireweed is the classic first bloom on a logged Kootenay cut-block. The honey practically writes itself. Food growing here isn't starting from zero; it plugs into a tool we already run.

Connected systems

• 💧 Water — The binding constraint — and the first thing we design. One creek decides how many of us the land can hold.
• ♻️ Waste → Zero-Waste — The aim: a commons where 'waste' is mostly feedstock. Compost, biochar, greywater, repair — and an honest note on what's still hard.
• 🗺️ Land & Lots — How 2,560 acres becomes 500 surveyed 3-acre cells and a vast permanent commons — cut by buildable envelope, not by ruler.

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