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  • From: Killian O'Brien <admin@pri-de.org>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Major Victory for family farmers, sustainable agriculture: Food Safety Bill Passes with Family Farm Protections
  • Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 20:08:11 -0500

I'll have to try to track down my source on that, but if you trust the USDA,
well... Maybe the numbers I gave were from pre-ethanol days? I do know
Victory Gardens provided 40% of fruits and veggies in WWII... how many acres
would that have required?

Cheers,

Killian O'Brien
PRI-De
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killiankob@yahoo.com
(760) 617-4693


-----Original Message-----
From: permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Toby Hemenway
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 8:02 PM
To: permaculture
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Major Victory for family farmers, sustainable
agriculture: Food Safety Bill Passes with Family Farm Protections


On Dec 3, 2010, at 2:25 PM, Killian O'Brien wrote:
>
> And that doesn't include turning our lawns into gardens. Lawns in the US =
> 3x the acreage used for corn production.

That didn't seem right to me, and It's actually 4-6x more corn acreage than
lawn.

Acres in corn, 2010: 88.2 million
Acres in lawn, 2010: 14 to 25 million

sources:
Corn: USDA http://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Field_Crops/cornac.asp
Lawn: http://www.thelawninstitute.org/faqs/?c=183313
and http://www.backyardnature.com/cgi-bin/gt/tpl.h,content=381


Toby

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