There was a company years ago that remodeled/landscaped people's yards into permie gardens and then harvested the crops and distributed them like a CSA. You could integrate a market function into your offering, eh?
I'd be interested to hear more. As I said in a sib comment, permaculture et. al. obviously works and (in many ways) is more desirable than conventional agriculture† yet integrating it with the existing economy seems challenging. The existing systems really do provide tremendous amounts of food at very low prices, and it's hard to compete. It seems like you have to work with the kitchen budget that would be saved by growing one's own veggies in the backyard.
†Farms turn forest into desert, while permaculture turns desert into forest!
That's great to hear! My ambitions for https://edible.estate/ are to use the climate, weather, and plant data available to help guide the user and eventually provide auto-generated permaculture designs for a given plot of land (essentially, permaculture in an app). I realize that the app might get you only 50% (maybe eventually 90%) there, but a lot of the design principles and rules of thumb I've learned are amenable to being captured in code logic.
If you would like to continue the dialog, please email me (andrew at automicrofarm.com) or set up a time to video chat (https://automicrofarm.com/book-an-appointment.html). Thanks, looking forward to it!
There was a company years ago that remodeled/landscaped people's yards into permie gardens and then harvested the crops and distributed them like a CSA. You could integrate a market function into your offering, eh?