Cohousing-L Mailing List: Fwd: Re: Serious Food Growing

[Mmariner (Mmariner]

Another response attached to share to the list.  Hope you don't mind, Joe.
 The teacher in me couldn't help putting a couple more examples up on the
board!

Out here in the arid west, growing bluegrass all over the landscape takes a
huge amount of water, not to mention weed control chemicals, etc.

Here at the house I'm sharing there must be at least a half acre of bluegrass
that is rarely used for recreation or anything -- just a vast, infertile crop
to mow. 

Having food stuff growing where there used to be lawn takes some getting used
to, I suppose.  I, for one, loved the looks of Winslow's edible landscape.
 More like walking out in a natural setting, except you could reach down (or
up) everyware and pluck something to eat!

Learning about permaculture can be consciousness raising -- it involves
taking earth stewardship way beyond recycling your newspapers and beer cans
and in a "path of least resistance" way that deeply appeals to me. 

OK, Mike, enough preaching.  Just shut up!

=MM=
Boulder
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Forwarded message:
From:   jnolan [at] Adobe.COM (Joe Nolan)
To:     Mmariner [at] aol.com
Date: 96-10-05 17:58:35 EDT

At 01:25 AM 10/5/96 -0500, you wrote:
>How many cohousing groups are either growing significant food or plan to?
>.....
>Another option:  if you don't have time/space to grow your own, how many
have
>considered joining a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm where you
pay
>in advance for a share of a year's produce?
>
 Ecovillage at Ithaca, (where the 1st house closings occurred yesterday!)
has an on-site organic farm - "Westhaven Farm", which is in its 5th year of
operation. The produce is currently sold via a CSA and local farmer's
market, and will provide a lot of the food for EVI.

-joe


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Joe Nolan
Ecovillage Cohousing Cooperative
http://www.cfe.cornell.edu/ecovillage/