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  • From: "Capt.D.C.G.Fox." <cdfox@optusnet.com.au>
  • To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Livingontheland Digest, Vol 187, Issue 4 Don't overlook lawn/grass areas.
  • Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:39:46 +1000

If you work lawn between 6 and 9 inches, harvesting the clippings and
processing through a worm bed and returning the residue to the lawn, you
will be sequestering carbon in a permanent way compared to the temporary
lockup in trees. Water requirements would be minimal and no synthetic
fertilizer or chemicals required and the community would have a light impact
recreational area to enjoy. (I have no objections to combining vegetables
and flowers in lawns.)
Regards,
Douglas.


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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:15:58 -0700
From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
Subject: [Livingontheland] In the Garden of Eatin?
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
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In the Garden of Eatin?
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090325_in_the_garden_of_eatin/
Posted on Mar 26, 2009
By Ellen Goodman

You have to admit that this gives new meaning to the idea of a
?shovel-ready project.? There are now 1,100 square feet on the South
Lawn of the White House being transformed into a kitchen garden. If
Americans follow the first family?s lead, the seed pack will become the



Today lawns cover 40 million acres, making them the largest
agricultural sector in America. They consume 270 billion gallons of water a
week, or enough for 81 million acres of organic vegetables. They suck up
$40 billion a year on seed, sod and chemicals, leading one historian to
compare them to ?a nationwide chemical experiment with homeowners as the
guinea pigs.?

We mow the lawn, we fertilize it, we pesticize it, we water it, for the
absurd purpose of keeping this useless patch in a deliberate state of
arrested development.

?It?s actually devouring resources and polluting and happening in
the most visible parts of our community?the vacant land between the house
and the street,? says Fritz Haeg, creator of the Edible Estates project,
whose goal is to begin replacing the domestic front lawn with what he calls
?full frontal gardening.?


But then again, the First Gardeners are in the first hundred days. We
never did promise them a rose garden.



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