the idea of magic forest adopted to a highlands of cyber valley
criteria for species selection
adopted: known to be productive, hardy and low maintenance
scalable: they are easy to propagate
high margin: together cover need for food system
key idea behind highland magic
you are not producing and selling one successful crop
but you are producing full menu to serve in your family restaurant
here are several examples
- you sell coffee for MATH_PLACEHOLDER_0300 if cooked and sold by cups
- you sell taro, batat and casava for MATH_PLACEHOLDER_1100 if cooked and sold by chips
- you sell avocado for MATH_PLACEHOLDER_230 being sold as salad
main problem with clove: you will always depend on the cigaretes market
currently you sell your crops for MATH_PLACEHOLDER_350 if served as lunch
there is a huge demand from tourism on the non toxic, natural food they can see how its being grown
the approach allow you to become more resilient agains crop failures and market fluctuations
and rise margin of your farm significantly
but to switch you must shift your mind from mono culture to poly culture food systems
this include plants, animal, fungi and aquatics
altogether the produce reliable and abundant system
garden
canopy: not so much can effectively grow in highland on that layer
- main: jackfruit
- secondary: aren, bamboo
- support: casuarina, pine, hesperocyparis, sengon, trema
- long term: nagasari , sandal, gaharu, sonokeling
- conifers: damar, platycladus, thuja, chamaecyparis, leda
- main: avocado, banana
- secondary: inga, cinnamon, fig, sapodilla, melaleuca, clove
- walls: kaliandra, dadap, lamtoro
- main: coffee, mulberry
- secondary
- species: syzigium polianthum
- fruits: guava, jeruk, cassava, syzygium jambos, spondias dulcis
- aromatics: champaka, ylang-ylang, plumeria, osmanthus
- walls: debregaesia, melastoma, lantana
herb - super productive, diverse layer
- main: taro, rubus, rosemary
- secondary:
- self growing annuals: carrot, amaranthus
- managed annuals: kale, swiss chard, radish, lettuce, broccoli, peas, cabbage
- greens: nopal, hibaceto, talinum, vegy fern, pandan
- aromatics: lavandula, patchouli, lemongrass, tarragon, salvia, fennel, coleus amboinicus, tulsi
- medicine: chaikonchai, artemisia, sambiloto
- rhizomes: ginger, curcuma
- edible flowers: rosa, china rose, bauhinia, tagetes erecta, malvaviscus, callianthe
- flowers: lily, orchid, anthurium, jasmine
- main: batat, strawberry
- secondary: mint, thyme, oregano, gotu kola, plantago, stevia, acmella
- support: comfrey, alfalfa, clover, arachis
fungi: oyster
animal system
aquatics system