Heart Brain Farm

Heart Brain Farm is a circular and regenerative food system that has been designed to transform the current food retail store (commodity-based) to operate on a circular pattern (community/service-based). With Heart Brain Farm, the consumer is directly involved in the production of food, and receives credits and discounts for her or his contributions to the system.
In this system users collaborate with local farmers by supplying them with organic, healthy, and free resources. This eliminates the need for costly fertilizers and other products that currently render organic produce impossibly expensive for many people.
Organic fertilizers have a higher cost per unit of nutrient than synthetic fertilizer sources which, in turn, make the yielded crops’ prices higher. Although seemingly-cheaper, synthetic fertilizers have long term negative effects. They kill beneficial microorganisms in soil and “Nitrogen- and phosphate-based synthetic fertilizers leach into groundwater and increase its toxicity, causing water pollution.”
Furthermore, most farms add hormones to animal feed, which can also create health risks for people who eat the resulting meat products. The cost of organic food for these animals makes organic protein very expensive in retail stores.  
 
 
The main objective with Circular Food System is the creation of a zero-waste community. 
There are two main centers in the system: black flies center and red worm one. Based on your diet, the customer can decide on the journey of their kitchen waste with the application in their smart phone and their membership to the system:
Black flies emerge, mate and die. Each time they go through this life cycle, they create 200-500 eggs in one bucket. These eggs then turn to larvae, which eat the kitchen waste and become mature. These larvae are wonderful protein sources for pigs, fish, and chickens. In the end of this circle, users are awarded credit or discounts for eggs, chickens, fish, or pork products.
Red worms break down kitchen waste, transforming it to fertilizer. The fertilizer can then be transferred to local farms. In the end of this circle, users are awarded credit or discounts for vegetables, fruits, roots, or grains.
 
These 2 circles create resources for farmers while reducing prices on healthy food in the community. Using natural methods of transforming kitchen waste to food resources is slower than the technological methods applied by today’s commercial farmers, but red worms and black flies duplicate easily and can, therefore, be conceptualized as a sustainable resource. These two living species are also highly sensitive to chemical materials. They react and die if there is chemical contamination in the bucket. This helps to ensure that the farming materials that they produce are safe and will support the growth of healthy plants.
 
This system supports the maintenance of a healthy community while reducing the price of organic food. This, in turn, helps to reduce the costs of healthcare. Moreover, everyone in the community would know where their food came from and because they are involved in the processes of production, the amount of wasted food would decrease.