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Food For Thought - LeeE - 12-11-2011
"Carrots in the car park. Radishes on the roundabout. The deliciously eccentric story of the town growing ALL its own veg"
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2072383/Eccentric-town-Todmorden-growing-ALL-veg.html#ixzz1gFgZv6F3
Saw this on rense.com
Here's a community in the UK, producing enough free food for the entire town. Food for thought.
Lee Eisenstein
http://members.cruzio.com/~lionel/event
RE: Food For Thought - Kelena - 12-11-2011
There really is no reason for us not to produce enough fruits and vegetables for every man, woman and child in Puna locally. There are issues, of course, such as rat lung disease, but issues are for solving. I do find it very odd, though, to find avocados from Mexico in the local stores.
RE: Food For Thought - Rumi in Hawaii - 12-11-2011
Oooooh this was a delight. Victory Gardens have always inspired me, but a whole town? Such a concept..... I'm posting this on Facebook and also emailing it to other folks who don't "do" Facebook.... This is my dream, too - self-sufficiency and lack of greed.....
Wherever you go, there you are.
RE: Food For Thought - LeeE - 12-11-2011
If Hawaii had free food growing everywhere, it would also make us a more unique tourist destination. Rename the island, the garden of eatin.**S**
Lee Eisenstein
http://members.cruzio.com/~lionel/event
RE: Food For Thought - Bullwinkle - 12-11-2011
I believe in both japan and the netherlands - they farm the land in between the runways and taxi ways on some airports, no room to waste - lots of mouths to feed
RE: Food For Thought - Hotzcatz - 12-11-2011
I think the victory gardens produced about 40% of the countries vegetables and I haven't a clue as to why folks stopped. There is also the "Home Farm" concept used in Europe.
Kurt Wilson
RE: Food For Thought - missydog1 - 12-11-2011
Food crops grown where they get constant exposure to car emissions pick up those toxins. Like when I lived in Mendocino and we picked the wild blackberries, we didn't pick the ones growing right by the busy roads.
We want food grown in clean air and with clean water, don't we?
"And I'm sure it wouldn't interest anybody, outside of a small circle of friends ~ Phil Ochs
RE: Food For Thought - Cagary - 12-13-2011
quote:
Originally posted by Kelena
There really is no reason for us not to produce enough fruits and vegetables for every man, woman and child in Puna locally. There are issues, of course, such as rat lung disease, but issues are for solving. I do find it very odd, though, to find avocados from Mexico in the local stores.
Hawaii only produces about 30% of the Avocados consumed here. Its all about production costs. Labor is just too expensive here to run a commercial avocado farm. I was told the most profitable avocado growers are "family" farms where members of an extended family work together That way there are no real "employees" with all the government regulated costs that go with them.
RE: Food For Thought - punaticbychoice - 12-13-2011
What does sustainability mean to us?
We are on 6250 square miles (land area) of islands here,
with 1,360,000 humans.
I think Kalena and Cagary maybe unintentionally framed a vital discussion.
RE: Food For Thought - Kapohocat - 12-13-2011
quote:
Originally posted by Kelena... I do find it very odd, though, to find avocados from Mexico in the local stores.
Buy Avos??? [
] I thought in Puna when everyone's trees are exploding with fruit you get bags of them left on your doorstop! (just teasing you Kelena!)Really I think a a small part of the problem is we have become used to getting whatever fruit we want, when we want it, not when it is growing in season locally. Just a thought, no scientific data to back it up.