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- From: Steve Diver <steved@ipa.net>
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- Subject: [permaculture] quarter acre in size
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:27:35 -0400 (EDT)
In the thread "Definition of area measurement; quarter acre
in size", I suggested that list participants calculate how many
rows and beds of vegetables and crops you can fit inside
a quarter acre..... a dacha garden, a rood, a country garden
in size.
It's a practical excercize that could lead into spreadsheets,
garden planning guides, tables, and crop enterprise budgets
that you'd want in a permaculture toolbox.
Along these lines, I call your attention to this classic book of
agricultural acreage measurements quickly estimated by stepping
off land in yards, published in 1856, that starts off with the
following pithy text:
"The content of land is estimated in acres, roods, and perches,
forty of which perches make one rood, and four roods make one
acre."
The Farmer's Land-Measurer, or Pocket Companion: Showing, at
One View, the Content of Any Piece of Land, from Dimensions
Taken in Yards. With a Set of Useful Agricultural Tables
by James Pedder
C.M. Saxton Pub Co, New York. 1856.
Making of America (MOA) collection
http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=AJQ8020.0001.001
This book is part of the Making of America (MOA) collection, which
offers page-views of digitized text.
Steve Diver
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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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