Re: A New Perspective on Agriculture
Dan Hook (guldann@ix.netcom.com)
Wed, 24 Mar 1999 18:12:27 -0500
>I think more people in suburbia should grow their own garden, they'd
probably be amazed at how good everything taste. However as someone who
owns a smallish big farm 85 acres located in suburbia I do not see farms
being replaced by houses as a blessing. Keep in mind our 85 acres is about
1/2 1/2 open and wooded and is home to various wildlife including wet lands.
I always feel very sad when I see a field replaced by houses. Beth
>
>valerie frances wrote:
>
>> "When conditions are ripe for it, these suburban lots could quickly be
>> developed into mini-farms, either as home-based businesses or as a
>> source of much good food for the family living there. That sort of
>> flexibility, coupled with broad-based ownership of prime agricultural
>> land in the form of suburban lots, may turn out to be a very lucky and
>> important break at a moment when we need one badly."
>>
>
>Anyone interested in seeing this type of agriculture first hand should go
to Japan. I was there a year ago and was amazed at the intensity of food
producing plots. Not a single square foot is wasted! Even in the downtown
areas in of Tokyo there were plots as small as 4x5 ft that had veggies
growing in
>them. There is no grass for yards *anywhere* near the population centers.
It is considered a waste of resourses not to grow food in open spaces. Even
at major interchanges on the highways they have planted the whole area in
vegetables.
>
>Steve Groff.
>--
>"New Generation Cropping Systems": the cutting edge of sustainable
agriculture
>http://www.cedarmeadowfarm.com
>Steve Groff
>Cedar Meadow Farm
>679 Hilldale Rd
>Holtwood PA 17532 USA
>Ph. 717-284-5152
>
>
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