Comments on: Grow your own — doing the maths http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2007/10/grow-your-own/ Creative adaptations to peak oil and climate change Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:29:57 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Templeton http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2007/10/grow-your-own/comment-page-1/#comment-65801 Templeton Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:42:43 +0000 http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2007/10/grow-your-own/#comment-65801 Hi Adam. Found this post while researching water use. Some interesting points, but there are a number of inaccuracies. To be a pedant, Australia is the second driest continent, after Antarctica. On a more substantial note, there are considerable inaccuracies in your water figures. "Lets say that we produce the most agriculturally water intensive third of our food at home, using tank water and water efficient gardening techniques. (Ie. the kind of thing which we grow best at home: fruit and vegetables. We could roughly halve our embodied water use." The most water intensive agriculture for human consumption is dairy. Irrigated fruit and vegetable production is relatively efficient, compared to livestock, pasture and dairy production. Hi Adam.
Found this post while researching water use. Some interesting points, but there are a number of inaccuracies. To be a pedant, Australia is the second driest continent, after Antarctica. On a more substantial note, there are considerable inaccuracies in your water figures. “Lets say that we produce the most agriculturally water intensive third of our food at home, using tank water and water efficient gardening techniques. (Ie. the kind of thing which we grow best at home: fruit and vegetables. We could roughly halve our embodied water use.”
The most water intensive agriculture for human consumption is dairy. Irrigated fruit and vegetable production is relatively efficient, compared to livestock, pasture and dairy production.

]]> By: Andrew Lucas http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2007/10/grow-your-own/comment-page-1/#comment-11489 Andrew Lucas Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:35:51 +0000 http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2007/10/grow-your-own/#comment-11489 Hey Adam, this is great stuff. We're about to launch the Sustainability at Home and Beyond (SAHAB) website in the surf coast shire & I'm using much of this stuff for various blog entries as well as informing the strategic planners (have one peak oil literate guy in there now wooohooo!) on the importance of productive green space. I'll let you know when the site's up. Cheers, Andrew. Hey Adam,

this is great stuff. We’re about to launch the Sustainability at Home and Beyond (SAHAB) website in the surf coast shire & I’m using much of this stuff for various blog entries as well as informing the strategic planners (have one peak oil literate guy in there now wooohooo!) on the importance of productive green space. I’ll let you know when the site’s up.

Cheers, Andrew.

]]> By: Eat The Suburbs! » Home food gardening saves water http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2007/10/grow-your-own/comment-page-1/#comment-11190 Eat The Suburbs! » Home food gardening saves water Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:21:43 +0000 http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2007/10/grow-your-own/#comment-11190 [...] just about to update the work-in-progress reference piece, Grow Your Own - Doing the Maths with the following graph, (this version taken from a powerpoint by David Holmgren — I should [...] [...] just about to update the work-in-progress reference piece, Grow Your Own – Doing the Maths with the following graph, (this version taken from a powerpoint by David Holmgren — I should [...]

]]> By: rick t http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2007/10/grow-your-own/comment-page-1/#comment-11006 rick t Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:48:20 +0000 http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2007/10/grow-your-own/#comment-11006 Hey Adam, Good stuff. Just written an article using your figures and numbers. Planning to use it again for my next book. Thanking in advance. Of course all the credit is given, don't you worry about that. Feeling like getting back into blogging and writing again (after all those calfing, lambing and chicking, spring sowing etc). all the best, r Hey Adam,
Good stuff.
Just written an article using your figures and numbers.
Planning to use it again for my next book. Thanking in advance. Of course all the credit is given, don’t you worry about that.
Feeling like getting back into blogging and writing again (after all those calfing, lambing and chicking, spring sowing etc).

all the best,
r

]]> By: Stuart Young http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2007/10/grow-your-own/comment-page-1/#comment-10964 Stuart Young Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:50:41 +0000 http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2007/10/grow-your-own/#comment-10964 Hi, excellent blog, excellent post. I am not surprised that a household can reduce their waste by the large amounts you report. I see this in my street every week - we only put our wheelie bin once a month and even then its half empty. Others in the street have overflowing bins every week. Admittedly we try to reduce the packaging we buy as well as compost. Hi, excellent blog, excellent post. I am not surprised that a household can reduce their waste by the large amounts you report. I see this in my street every week – we only put our wheelie bin once a month and even then its half empty. Others in the street have overflowing bins every week. Admittedly we try to reduce the packaging we buy as well as compost.

]]> By: Sam Hoffmann http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2007/10/grow-your-own/comment-page-1/#comment-8982 Sam Hoffmann Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:27:19 +0000 http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2007/10/grow-your-own/#comment-8982 Excellent very well written. Excellent very well written.

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