FOOD NOT LAWNS!

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FOOD NOT LAWNS!

• 18th Century French Aristocrats

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FOOD NOT LAWNS!

• The lawns in the US consume around 270 Billion
  gallons of water a week enough to water 81
  million acres of organic veggies all summer long.
  
• 58 million Americans spend approximately 30
  Billion dollars every year to maintain more than
  23 Million acres of lawn.
• The EPA estimates that a mower emits as much
  pollution in one hour as a car emits in driving
  20 miles.
• Numerous studies have linked common household
  herbicides and pesticides to asthma, cancer,
  reduced fertility and neurological harm to
  fetuses, infants and children.

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FOOD NOT LAWNS!

• Only one-fourth of all U.S. households grow some
  of their own produce, says the Census Bureau.
• It is time to grow food, not lawns!

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What you can do in your backyard

• "Eaters must understand that eating takes place
  inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably
  an agricultural act, and that how we eat
  determines, to a considerable extent, how the
  world is used," - - wrote famed agrarian essayist
  Wendell Berry

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What you can do in your backyardApartment/Condos

• Apartment Gardens
• ½ wine barrels
• Planters
• Vertical space (climbers)
• Hanging baskets

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What you can do in your backyardApartment/Condos
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What you can do in your backyardSmall Yards

• Raised beds
• Planters
• ½ wine barrels
• Compost Bins
• Worm Bin

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What you can do in your backyardSmall Yards
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What you can do in your backyardSmall Yards
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What you can do in your backyardsMedium Yard

• Fruit Trees
• Ponds
• Fences
• Edible Ornamentals
• Raised Beds

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What you can do in your backyardsMedium Yards
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What you can do in your backyardsMedium Yards
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What you can do in your backyardsMedium Yards
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What you can do in your backyardsMedium Yards
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What you can do in your backyardsMedium Yards
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What you can do in your backyardsLarge Yard

• Fruit Trees/Orchard
• Kids Garden
• Specialty Crops
• Chicken Coup
• Goats

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What you can do in your backyardsLarge Yards
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What you can do in your backyardsLarge Yards
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What you can do in your backyardsLarge
Yards(check the city or county zoning ordinance!)
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What you can do in your backyardsLinda
Larrys Food Forest

• "Food Forests seek to mimic the resiliency,
  complexity and diversity of natural systems. They
  provide food, forage, fiber and fuel in
  quantities limited only by the designer's
  imagination"
• - Bill Mollison

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What you can do in your backyardsLinda
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What you can do in your backyardsLinda
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What you can do in your backyardsLinda
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What you can do in your neighborhoodFood Sheds

• The foodshed concept, most often attributed to
  Arthur Getz's in his 1991 Urban Foodsheds article
  in Permaculture Activist , uses the analogy of a
  watershed to describe 'the area that is defined
  by a structure of supply'. Getz used the image of
  a foodshed to answer the question of "Where our
  food is coming from and how it is getting to us"
  and to picture how the local and regional food
  supply system works. Inherent in this concept, he
  emphasized, was 'the suggestion of a need to
  protect a source, as well as the need to know and
  understand its specific geographic and ecological
  dimensions, condition and stability in order for
  it to be safeguarded and enhanced.'

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What you can do in your neighborhoodMesa Garden
Exchange/Food Sheds

• www.mesaexchange.org
•                           
• Who Mesa Neighbors
• What Mesa Garden Exchange
• Bring your extra homegrown veggies,
  fruits, herbs, flowers, seeds, seedlings, compost
  worms, chicken eggs, etc.
• Where Different neighbor every month
• Why To share produce with neighbors, to talk
  gardens, to meet new friends and catch-up with
  old friends.
• When  First Sunday of the Month
• SIGN UP TO START YOUR OWN NEIGHBORHOODGARDEN
  EXCHANGE TODAY!

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What you can do in your CommunityLocal Resources

• Island Seed and Feed 29 S. Fairview Ave.
• Agri-Turf Supplies 2257 Las Positas
• Green Gardeners
• Landscape designers specializing in edibles
  WELDesign, www.WELDesign.net
• Organic Gardening SB Permaculture listservs
• Master Gardener Program
• Organic Resource Guide
• Classes/EventsBotanic Garden, SBCC, Adult Ed
• Community Gardens

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