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DIY Agriculture

DIY Agriculture

An open-source, evidence-driven knowledge base for understanding how food is actually produced — from land and seed through harvest, processing, drying, and storage — at home or on a small scale.
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The question behind the project

Section titled “The question behind the project”

«How does food production actually work, and how much of it could an ordinary person learn to do?»

A bag of chia seeds, beans, or sunflower seeds hides almost everything required to produce it. DIY Agriculture documents that entire chain — from land and seed to a usable product — for crops that can realistically be grown on a small plot.

How research is conducted, evidence is rated, and uncertainty is preserved. [Read it →](/methodology/) Chia, amaranth, sesame, sunflower, dry beans, and the expansion crop moringa — each documented topic by topic. [Start with chia](/crops/chia/) Irrigation, soil, threshing, drying, storage — the parts of agriculture shared across crops. [Browse systems](/systems/irrigation/) Raw source material lives in research/ and structured crop data in data/, both in the GitHub repository.

Status

Section titled “Status”

Active research draft. Chia, amaranth, dry beans, moringa, and sesame now have topic-by-topic draft dossiers; sunflower remains an outline. Sesame is a metadata draft with human screening pending. Unsupported values stay Unknown by design — this is not agricultural advice.