Sunday, February 07, 2010

Building the Health and Wealth of Community

Berkshire Harmony is a Community Supported Agriculture
“working proof of concept” model for the most efficient, cost effective,
eco-friendly, carbon negative, four season, field to fork system for the
growing and delivery of fresh, locally grown, high value, nutrient rich produce
to neighborhood households safely, securely, and swiftly at an affordable price
across the socio-economic spectrum of the community.

The system advances the ethical use and creation of Biochar
through the pyrolysis process to produce heat and gases to electrify
greenhouses, to create the biochar to sequester carbon in the soil for
thousands of years mitigating the effects of climate change, to purify water and
to conserve and retain water for slow release into the soil, while the biochar
reenergizes the soil biology and creates a residence for millions upon millions
of microorganisms that enrich the nutrients drawn into the plants of the
fruits, vegetables, herbs, cover crops and grains grown. 

This socially just system functions through five channels of
distribution: CSA memberships, farm stands, farmer’s markets, wholesale,
and donations to emergency food services, kitchens and pantries.

Produce transportation from the farm to the community is in
non-fossil fuel operated vehicles and the CSA shares are handed off for
delivery throughout the neighborhoods in six hundred and fifty-pound payload
capacity, human powered cargo tricycles.

Berkshire Harmony is a vehicle for building community health
and wealth by feeding more families the freshest produce, grown closer to home,
and by focusing on two of the most important commodities of the 21^st Century: Calories and Carbon. Calories have been a barter chip since man first
produced crops over 11,000 years ago, and Biochar is a carbon derivative and
likewise, it is a medium of exchange, a currency that drives markets. Families
and farmers in the community can produce Calories and Biochar thus enriching a
truly sustainable, local, agrarian economy.

There is much more to be discovered about Berkshire Harmony
beyond these few words.

If you have the urge to explore more, contact: barry@berkshireharmony

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- 2010 Berkshire Harmony