RUF™ & MUFN™: A Scalable, Container-Based Model for Regenerative Food Production and Community Resilience

This document provides a structured overview of the Regenerative Urban Farming (RUF™) curriculum and its applied implementation within the Ma’at Urban Farm Network™ (MUFN™). It outlines the full course framework, including module objectives, key concepts, assigned readings, and practical growing applications.

The document details nine instructional modules covering soil ecology, water systems, plant literacy, forgotten heritage crops (amaranth, Beni Imo, and Jerusalem artichokes), planting design, regenerative agricultural systems, garden maintenance, harvesting, preservation, and cooperative distribution. Each module integrates ecological science with historical and sociopolitical food analysis, particularly through required readings from Andrea Freeman’s Ruin Their Crops on the Ground.

In addition to curriculum structure, the document includes applied field results from implementation in Indianapolis (Zone 6a), demonstrating container-based regenerative production methods such as Hugelkultur High-Rise Gardens™, GroTubes, and fabric grow bags. It explains soil composition strategies, crop performance observations, harvest efficiency methods, and lessons learned from growing heritage crops within controlled urban systems.

The final section describes the broader vision of RUF™ as scalable distributed infrastructure through the Ma’at Urban Farm Network™, emphasizing decentralization, education, soil regeneration, and coordinated micro-site production.

Overall, the document serves as both a curriculum guide and a practical demonstration of how regenerative, culturally rooted agriculture can function as decentralized community infrastructure.