Factor e Farm

Factor e Farm, Maysvile, Missouri + Kansas City Area, USA

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Announcement: A World-Changing Opportunity

Open Source Ecology (OSE) is excited to introduce the OSE Fellowship, a four-year, a $100,000 work-study grant to empower young people to re-imagine and re-build civilization. 

About the OSE Fellowship

The OSE Fellowship is a unique opportunity for individuals aged 18-24 who are seeking a radical alternative to traditional education and career paths. Fellows will dedicate themselves full-time to OSE’s on-site campus in the Kansas City area, working to…

You are invited to all hands on deck as we finish the Global Village Construction Set by 2028.

Ladies and gentlemen, the first Seed Eco-Home is now for sale, and we have 8 ways to make it accessible to the global public. This marks a significant step: we believe that sales will bootstrap funding for the full development of the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS).

This achievement paves the way for our broader goal: an open source economy characterized by near-zero marginal cost and…

With the completion of the open source Seed Eco-Home, and the final step of selling the house on the open market – we can now offer a number of ways that you can build or acquire a Seed Eco-Home.

But let’s talk about solving housing first. The problem is an under-supply of housing. This is not controversial. The answer? Build more housing! This is controversial. Because there is plenty of land, but regulations monopolize access. This is how it is. Why? Because people want it this way. Houses…

Ladies and gentlemen, we are taking the next major step towards scaling the work of OSE. We are starting a 4 year apprenticeship for Future Builders. Forget about trade school or college – we are offering a radical, transformative alternative: The Future Builders Academy.

In 4 years or less – you will learn to build seed eco-homes as 24 person crew – in only 5 days from start to finish. But construction is brutal hard work – that’s why your role in the program is to find the worst part – and…

We are close to starting our 4 year immersion programs in Builder Science, Construction Management, and Civilization Construction – with the Seed Eco-Home 4 as the product. We are on our way to bootstrap GVCS development to completion by 2028. Take a look at the updated progress on the GVCS that I published today on the wiki and copied below, which puts the Seed Eco-Home and our larger goals a little more in perspective. I plan to re-engage on social media once I regain my ample spare time.

Development work always takes longer than one thinks – and only now we’re finishing off the product release of Seed Eco-Home 2. You can see about a 1000 pictures of the process taken over the last year. Now we’re finalizing the full digital model of the Seed Eco-Home 2 mechanical-electrical-plumbing in FreeCAD to finish off the complete CAD model.

This is at a level of detail rarely found in design documents – but critical for us as we open source the complete design. We aim to do a photo…

It is an interesting convergence – lumber prices shooting through the roof – and Compressed Earth Block being some of the most robust building material known to humankind. After all, the Smithsonian did claim that sophisticated buildings will be made of mud. As such, we’re returning to CEB construction as part of the Seed Eco-Home project – AND building an industrial grade sawmill this summer. The CEB press and the sawmill are 2 important machines in the Global Village Construction Set. Making…

We are getting ready for ambitious plans post-COVID 19. Next year we are releasing the Seed Eco-Home as a turnkey product that you can build with a friend in one week – for US$50k. And as I say, that is only the beginning.

You can sign up for announcements on the Seed Eco-Home release progress at the Seed Eco-Home Interest List. You can participate in a large collaborative hackathon for product release – or you can order a turnkey kit after product release.

The Seed Home is a product designed…

November 25, 2019: You can now download an archive of the entire Open Source Ecology Wiki! Now our blueprints-for-a-civilization available as a file on an SD card, viewable off-grid from any off-the-shelf Android phone.

The OSE Wiki is our primary source for documentation of our work at Open Source Ecology. It is a placeholder for the blueprints of the 50 GVCS machines: their Bill of Materials, CAD files, build instructions, genealogies, etc. This is the current state of completion of the…