permaculture

[Toby Hemenway <toby@patternliteracy.com>]

On Dec 3, 2010, at 2:25 PM, Killian O'Brien wrote:
> 
> And that doesn't include turning our lawns into gardens. Lawns in the US = 
> 3x the acreage used for corn production.

That didn't seem right to me, and It's actually 4-6x more corn acreage than 
lawn. 

Acres in corn, 2010: 88.2 million 
Acres in lawn, 2010: 14 to 25 million

sources:
Corn: USDA http://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Field_Crops/cornac.asp
Lawn: http://www.thelawninstitute.org/faqs/?c=183313 
and http://www.backyardnature.com/cgi-bin/gt/tpl.h,content=381


Toby