highland magic

• 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 $0.8 per kg, however you can earn $300 if cooked and sold by cups
    • you sell taro, batat and casava for $0.5 per kg, however you can earn $100 if cooked and sold by chips
    • you sell avocado for $0.8 per kg, however it costs $30 being sold as salad
  • main problem with cloth: you will always depend on the cigaretes market
  • currently you sell your crops for $1-2 per kg, however you can earn at least $50 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
  • dwarf:
    • main: avocado, banana
    • secondary: inga, cinnamon, fig, sapodilla, melaleuca, clove
    • walls: kaliandra, dadap, lamtoro
  • shrub
    • 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
  • cover
    • main: batat, strawberry
    • secondary: mint, thyme, oregano, gotu kola, plantago, stevia, acmella
    • support: comfrey, alfalfa, clover, arachis
  • vine
    • main: chayote
    • secondary: markiza, basella, betel
• fungi: oyster
• animal system
  • chicken
  • sheep or goat
  • bees
• aquatics system
  • catfish + kangkung