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===Food production===
Food production has often been included in historic autonomous projects to provide security.<ref name="publications">[http://nature.my.cape.com/greencenter/pubonline.html Publications list of the New Alchemy Institute] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100217004825/http://nature.my.cape.com/greencenter/pubonline.html |date=February 17, 2010 }}. Retrieved 2010-02-05.</ref>
Skilled, intensive [[garden]]ing can support an adult from as little as 100 square meters of land per person,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pathtofreedom.com/urban-homestead#%23Urban%20Homestead%20at%20a%20Glance%23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100204130925/http://www.pathtofreedom.com/urban-homestead#%23Urban%20Homestead%20at%20a%20Glance%23|url-status=dead|title=Path of Freedom|archive-date=February 4, 2010}}</ref><ref>How to Grow a Complete Diet in Less Than 1000 Square Feet Dave Duhon & Cindy Gebhard, 1984, 200 pp. Ecology Action GROW BIOINTENSIVE(R) Publications</ref>
possibly requiring the use of organic farming and [[aeroponics]]. Some proven intensive, low-effort food-production systems include [[urban agriculture|urban gardening]] (indoors and outdoors). [[Grow house|Indoor cultivation]] may be set up using [[hydroponics]], while outdoor cultivation may be done using [[permaculture]], [[forest gardening]], [[no-till farming]], and [[do nothing farming]].

[[Greenhouse]]s are also sometimes included.<ref name="publications"/><ref>The PEI Ark was a greenhouse with fishponds and living quarters.</ref> Sometimes they are also outfitted with irrigation systems or [[Thermal energy storage|heat sink]] systems which can respectively irrigate the plants or help to store energy from the sun and redistribute it at night (when the greenhouses starts to cool down).<ref name="publications"/><ref>The PEI Ark used its fishponds as both thermal mass and water storage.</ref>