GreenStart's mission is to foster a resilient energy and food system for New Hampshire by providing technical education and practical agricultural examples. An educational non-profit organization established in 2006, GreenStart sees food and fuel security as the end-product of a vibrant, sustainable agriculture system in New Hampshire.
New Hampshire has 40% of its land area in agricultural soils, yet farms only 10% and imports 95% of its food and fuel. New Hampshire has no significant petroleum resources. To feed and fuel itself from sustainable natural resources, New Hampshire must improve its soils while also improving production.
To achieve this end, GreenStart facilitates projects that
1) increase soil carbon “banking”
2) decrease energy inputs
3) increase both food and fuel outputs (positive energy and carbon balance)
4) promote “tight” cycling of nutrients
5) provide opensource access to appropriate knowledge, seeds and equipment
Bill, There is lots going on with dialogs with GreenStart's ( www.greenstartnh.org )feed and seed initiative and building on UVM's oilseed calculator and integrating with gocrop, DNDC and others. Here is a link to a wiki I have started but sandboxed until more developed. http://farmhack.net/tools/universal-adaptive-management-software#wiki
We have an event coming up to focus on systems integration and how that fits with the unifying software concept. I have a huge backlog to post - and hope to get up on the site within the next week!