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  • From: "John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] How to Grow All Your Food on a Tenth of an Acre
  • Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 23:47:10 -0000


Being diabetic I don't eat grains any longer but my family does! And from the video I can only make the rough guestimate that we would run out of that wheat in a week just for the bread that is made here. I am also fairly certain that the corn shown would not feed my poultry for a week or would allow us to make corn bread for more than three weeks.

That alone is a long way off for a year long food supply even in a good climate. In a cold climate you do need more calories just to keep warm.
john




Just to be sure I checked http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California#Climate & Palo Alto has a Mediterranean Climate. Well, we could all grow more with mild outdoor temperatures all year, couldn't we. That isn't brought out in the article.

As for wheat I'm not big on grains. With other calorie foods like potatoes & beans etc. I don't see grains as absolutely necessary. Cover crops are useful but I'd favor buckwheat there. As for green manure crops, there's plenty of organic waste out there, leaves, grass, large animal manure & so on, usually free for the taking. I see nothing unsustainable about recycling it, importing that waste to the garden from nearby. Myself I don't have room to grow my own grasses for composting, & lots of people are in the same situation.

Somehow being practical in the big picture doesn't get pumped up in these articles.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 11/15/2012 at 10:29 PM John D'hondt wrote:

I think we would all loose a lot of weight if we had to live on what is
visible from this 1/10th acre garden and nothing else. In many places
people
would starve. I saw more sun during that 7 minute video than we had all
summer.
I also think that the good woman who guides us around does not have that
much experience. For instance she found harvesting the wheat a problem
while
it is really one of the oldest skills known to mankind. Her general
enthusiasm is great though and from that comes a little exaggeration.
john


What's wrong with this picture - anyone?

How to Grow All Your Food on a Tenth of an Acre

http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-agriculture/how-grow-all-your-food-tenth-acre.html

paul tradingpost@lobo.net



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