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- From: jedd <jedd@progsoc.org>
- To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [permaculture] quarter acre in size
- Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 13:09:21 +1000
On Sat, 2 Jun 2007, gordonse@one.net wrote:
> They use about 1/10 (10 cents) of their land for food and grow about 6000
> pounds of produce per year. If you used about the same amount for
> buildings on the 1/4 (25 cents) acre, you would have 15 cents to grow on
> instead of 10 cents.
Wow -- that made my nose bleed!
You guys (you know who you are) really have to ditch the
imperial measurements, and soon.
Dipping the toe into this whole 'wow, everything divides by 10!'
guilty fascination with things metric is a bit like a staged switch
to driving on the left side of the road (everyone whose number plate
ends with an even number starts on Monday, the rest on Tuesday).
Jedd.
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[permaculture] quarter acre in size,
Dave Bissette, 06/01/2007
- Re: [permaculture] quarter acre in size, Paula Hatfield, 06/01/2007
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Re: [permaculture] quarter acre in size,
gordonse, 06/01/2007
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Re: [permaculture] quarter acre in size,
jedd, 06/01/2007
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Re: [permaculture] quarter acre in size,
Toby Hemenway, 06/11/2007
- Re: [permaculture] quarter acre in size, Paul Cereghino, 06/11/2007
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Re: [permaculture] quarter acre in size,
jedd, 06/13/2007
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Re: [permaculture] metric vs Imperial [was: quarter acre in size],
Toby Hemenway, 06/14/2007
- Re: [permaculture] metric vs Imperial [was: quarter acre in size], Trudie Redding, 06/14/2007
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Re: [permaculture] metric vs Imperial [was: quarter acre in size],
Toby Hemenway, 06/14/2007
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Re: [permaculture] quarter acre in size,
Toby Hemenway, 06/11/2007
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Re: [permaculture] quarter acre in size,
jedd, 06/01/2007
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- [permaculture] quarter acre in size, Steve Diver, 06/12/2007
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