Subject: Re: [permaculture] Major Victory for family farmers, sustainable agriculture: Food Safety Bill Passes with Family Farm Protections
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 20:08:11 -0500
I'll have to try to track down my source on that, but if you trust the USDA,
well... Maybe the numbers I gave were from pre-ethanol days? I do know
Victory Gardens provided 40% of fruits and veggies in WWII... how many acres
would that have required?
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Subject: Re: [permaculture] Major Victory for family farmers, sustainable
agriculture: Food Safety Bill Passes with Family Farm Protections
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
Re: [permaculture] Major Victory for family farmers, sustainable agriculture: Food Safety Bill Passes with Family Farm Protections,
Killian O'Brien, 12/03/2010