Dar ul-Hijrah Initiative

As we wish for our community to grow and prosper, we must take special care to ensure the community becomes an economic powerhouse. It should be a centre for many different business ventures that can sustain its growth and prosperity. The initial aim is to make it sustainable for its inhabitants, but that is not where it stops, it should also trade surplus produce, have job opportunities for community members and provide services to the wider community.

The internal economy of the community should reflect the close knit relations that the community enjoys. Food will be produced communally, favouring crops that require the least maintenance, with a focus on native bushfoods, but also to include things like sunchokes, legumes and other easy to grow and nutritious crops that require little or no upkeep. Cropping should be self sufficient, producing its own seed and tubers that can be re-sown or left in soil year after year. Companion planting and permaculture techniques should be acquired by the community to increase the viability of crops.

Electricity should be produced by the community by all means possible in a sustainable and renewable way, with a focus on solar and potentially micro-hydro and any other technologies that become available.

Businesses that revolve around remote working should also be fostered to provide employment opportunities to members within the community.

Produce like sprouts & microgreens and fungi are also a great opportunity for the community to enter niche markets that can be quite lucrative, whilst also providing nutritious produce for the community's use.

The community should strive to be completely off grid, producing as much as possible of what it needs to function, specifically in terms of water, electricity & food. The community should co-exist with its environment and not exploit it for short term gains. The land should act as a sanctuary for native wildfire, and measures should be taken to ensure introduced species do not encroach on their habitat.