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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] The Role of Home Gardens in Feeding the World & Sequestering Carbon (PDF)
  • Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:07:18 -0700


One of the better sources on this subject. I can't find much to disagree
with here.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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The Role of Home Gardens in Feeding the World & Sequestering Carbon (PDF)
Michael Pilarski, Friends of the Trees Society
http://www.friendsofthetrees.net/images/feed_the_world2.pdf

This article explores the role of home gardens in world food production.
The thesis of the article is that home gardens have the potential to become
the dominant food supply for humanity. A case is made that home gardens
could grow 50% of humanity’s food supply on less then 10% of the
world’s arable farmland. Home gardens are one of the most reliable,
efficient and democratic ways of producing food ever invented. Agriculture
has repeatedly degraded its natural resource base and collapsed many
societies in the past. Modern, industrial agriculture is not suited to
these changing times and is liable to increasing breakdown within the next
decade

Who is this article written for? It is written for gardeners, would-be
gardeners, garden educators, hunger activists and people interested in
local food security. Organic gardeners will be familiar with much of the
material. Permaculturists already know most of the techniques and
principles outlined here. Most of it is just good, practical common-sense
gardening that gardeners everywhere can relate to.

PART I looks at home-gardens’ role in feeding people as compared to
agriculture and hunter-gathering.

PART II introduces tools, techniques and strategies to maximize home-garden
production, while being ecologically-sound, cost- and labor-effective, and
with minimal reliance on outside inputs and fossil-fuel.

This is a permaculture approach to gardening.

Everyone will find things to disagree with. Everyone will find some useful
ideas. Pick and choose what is
useful to you.
(2 January 2009)
Suggested by Nicola in Italy.

About Michale Pilarski:
Michael Pilarski is a farmer, educator and author who has devoted his life
to studying and teaching how people can live sustainably on this Earth. He
has extensive experience in organic farming, seed collecting, wildcrafting
medicinal herbs, plant propagation, horticulture, teaching, and
international networking. Michael has personally worked with over 1,000
species of plants. He founded Friends of the Trees Society in 1978 and has
authored many books on forestry, agriculture, agroforestry and ethnobotany.
Michael has been involved in the permaculture movement since 1981 as a
writer, teacher and networker. He has taught over 20 full Permaculture
Design Courses in the USA and abroad.





  • [Livingontheland] The Role of Home Gardens in Feeding the World & Sequestering Carbon (PDF), Tradingpost, 01/10/2009

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