- Rural System Introduction
- Rural System Business Model
- Model of Rural System Operations
- Rural System Groups
- Land Force
- VNodal and Support Groups
- Tools
- Precise Rural System Management
- Initiatives and Proposals for Implementing Rural System
- Literature
- Support for the Public
Rural System Introduction
Articles in this section provide an introduction to basic Rural System concepts, values, and overall vision.
About Rural System
Dr. Giles shares his difficulties in describing Rural System in a series of 13 amusing stories. He includes the Capsule (What’s Rural System?), and attempts to supplement it with diagrams.
Behind Doing Business: Our Credo
Curriculum Vitae and Information about Robert H. Giles, Jr.
Design Documents A1, A2, and A5
The umbrella entity is a land development, conservation, and education organization. It may use national and state lands and waters but, most importantly, it provides opportunities for the owners of private lands and waters (by design for absentee owners) to experience profits related to superior land management. While managing the assets of such lands, Rural System, Inc. provides related services, products, and seven other major benefits from the unified business units.
The Need: What’s Behind Rural System
Designing and developing Rural System, we try to deal with the difficulties within the gray space, the intersection of the zone between research and development, between business and ecological systems, and between government initiatives and private continuance. On one hand, it seeks to test a hypothesis that a modern ecosystem management system can sustain estimated rural (agricultural and natural resource) productivity while maintaining ecosystem health and enhancing social and economic development. It presumes access to many privately-owned natural resources and develops a dispersed working system, literally a “business ecosystem,” that can restore and manage new rural systems upon which such a business can be perpetuated.
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Rural System Enterprise Environments are a new vision of the traditional farm; each is a different private property, owned by absentee landowners, under Rural System management. Each Enterprise Environment has many different Groups, or small businesses, in operation. Profits from the Groups contribute to the overall profits of the Enterprise Environment, such that even if one group has a poor income year, the other groups help stabilize the profits in the greater system. Enterprise Environments work together in Clusters; Clusters are properties in close proximity, which may share tools and supplies between them where possible to lower costs. The three Enterprise Environments shown here are in a Cluster, demarcated by the blue dotted line.
The largest Groups in this Enterprise Environment are in the categories of Sports/Recreation, and Wildlife/Nature.
Rural System Enterprise Environments are a new vision of the traditional farm; each is a different property under Rural System management. Each Enterprise Environment has many different Groups, or small businesses, in operation. Profits from the Groups contribute to the overall profits of the Enterprise Environment, such that even if one group has a poor income year, the other groups help stabilize the profits in the greater system. Enterprise Environments work together in Clusters; Clusters are properties in close proximity, which may share tools and supplies between them where possible to lower costs. The three Enterprise Environments shown here are in a Cluster, demarcated by the blue dotted line.
The largest Groups in this Enterprise Environment are in the categories of Products/Services, and Agriculture.
Rural System Enterprise Environments are a new vision of the traditional farm; each is a different property under Rural System management. Each Enterprise Environment has many different Groups, or small businesses, in operation. Profits from the Groups contribute to the overall profits of the Enterprise Environment, such that even if one group has a poor income year, the other groups help stabilize the profits in the greater system. Enterprise Environments work together in Clusters; Clusters are properties in close proximity, which may share tools and supplies between them where possible to lower costs. The three Enterprise Environments shown here are in a Cluster, demarcated by the blue dotted line.
The largest Groups in this Enterprise Environment are in the categories of Agriculture, and Forestry.
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Rural System Groups
Groups are small businesses in operation on Rural System Enterprise Environments (properties). There are over 150 Groups envisioned for Rural System. The Groups have been organized here into 7 categories, as seen in the key of the diagram above. Use the diagram to jump to the table of contents for each category.