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4/22/2004 11:57 PM

 

The path forward

On the design of micro-farm ecosystem

 

 

Previous summary bead -> .

 

Dave,

 

We have made process in getting a few key people, in the Northern Shenandoah Valley, to share a vision of what is possible.  Our process development methodology seeks to enrich the planning process through careful listening and collaboration.

 

There are now five or six who have come to appreciate the whole picture, including distance learning content originating from rural farming experience (to the whole Nation - including in urban schools). {+} Several dozen in government or in the universities share some part of the vision. 

 

K-12 knowledge technology toolkit for Kids (CD)

http://www.bcngroup.org/python3/home.htm

and Infrastructrue

http://www.bcngroup.org/AIC/home.htm

http://www.bcngroup.org/beadgames/safeNet/home.htm

http://www.bcngroup.org/beadgames/microFarm/home.htm

 

The beads threads above is a record of the discussion about the Rural Safe Net and its many services to the Nation.

 

The investment structure is established.  The stock of OntologyStream is un-encumbered, (none has been sold).  The stock has been authorized now for three years, and like wine some aging can be useful. 

 

I am scheduled to meet with a professor of marketing & management at Shenandoah University on Monday at 10.  The professor has the ability to organize some aspects of the growth of the project. 

 

My belief is that this rural university will support the project if properly presented.  There have been no commitments, and we do not expect financial support from the university.  The level of support that we need at the next step is small.  We need $12,000 per month to continue the development of the core capabilities, and we need to locate a small working farm, 15 – 40 acres, where we can begin to establish the physical location of the Institute. 

 

The 12 K per month may come from a contract to the Army and State department for the prototyping of the Anticipatory Web as an intelligence sharing and knowledge management system. 

 

We need some land and some monthly operating expenses.  The land may be acquired creatively since the location of the research institute will increase the property values locally.  The land itself is a key, since having the land selected will focus the effort to get a line item in the National Budget.  OntologyStream Inc is willing to exchange up to 20% of its stock for the land.  An additional 10% is now dedicated to operating expenses.  20% is reserved for a single “first investment” of $900,000 so that the management and accounting structure can be put into place. 

 

The process development methodology (build social appreciative fields, understand the lines of influence and make arrangement to control based on common benefit) is being used, as discussed in the bead threads.

 

It will be nice to talk again - but the discussion is one that needs time and some resources.  My sense is that neither may be available easily.  We will prioritize. 

 

There is a potential to bring some new microFarm environments into the Northern Shenandoah Valley, and to establish a rural research setting not only for microFarm development but also as preliminary to National Project on the knowledge sciences curriculums. 

 

University Center for the National Project

 

The educational aspects gaining both local community support and national support, and help us get into a profitable position with income from grants, contracts and philanthropic gifts.  We may wish to move the center of the operation into West Virginia if we can gain the trust of the senior Senator there.  But Clarke country Virginia is our first chose at this time.

 

The principles we have set out in various places can be presented to County Fathers and to some individuals in the local rural university, Shenandoah University.  This is the next step.

 

Summery of the technical innovation: The information production system we have developed is based on principles that allow it to measure complex processes and develop what will replace a mathematical simulation of the complex system.  No statistics either, as we are developing the categorical definitions that allow the persistent phenomenon in ecological systems to be mapped to a symbol system that can be displayed as a means to understand the state of the system, and to conjecture about causes.

 

Orb technology will be applied within manufacturing operations that produce pharmaceutical and nutritional proteins from plants.  We will look for low technology processes that produce high value product but which generally require continuous monitoring and fine control of environmental elements.  One key will be to not allow spoilage in processes that often spoil.  To complete the concept of closed system micro farming, we include the sustainable production of Bioethanol and potentially Biocomposite materials from agricultural residue feedstocks. 

 

Through the application of direct instrumentation and computer encoded measurement we show that knowledge and careful control will produce product having high value. 

 

Return to the founding agrarian spirit of America

 

New Agricultural Visions Australia (NAVA)