"the best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow"

Tony Gosling tony at cultureshop.org.uk
Mon Feb 10 11:50:22 GMT 2014 

>
>From: "Joan Lawson" <lawson.joan at btinternet.com>
>
>Yes!
>The most productive "land" is a window box and 
>"the best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow".
>Joan Lawson
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:tony at cultureshop.org.uk>Tony Gosling
>To: <mailto:diggers350 at yahoogroups.com>Massimo
>Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2014 11:18 PM
>Subject: [Diggers350] Garden plots up to 15 
>times more productive than rural holdings?
>
>
>
>  Garden plots can be up to 15 times more 
> productive than rural holdings. An area of just 
> one square metre can provide 20 kg of food a year.
>
>Urban agriculture
>The rapid growth of cities in the developing 
>world is placing enormous demands on urban food supply systems.
>
>  Agriculture – including horticulture, 
> livestock, fisheries, forestry, and fodder and 
> milk production – is increasingly spreading to 
> towns and cities. Urban agriculture provides 
> fresh food, generates employment, recycles 
> urban wastes, creates greenbelts, and 
> strengthens cities’ resilience to climate change. Latest
>http://www.fao.org/urban-agriculture/en/
>
>Presentation Growing greener cities - DR Congo  -  Resources
>Presentation: Urban Agriculture and Food Security - Some Facts and Figures
>         FAO's role in urban agriculture
>
>Urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) can be 
>defined as the growing of plants and the raising 
>of animals within and around cities.
>
>Urban and peri-urban agriculture provides food 
>products from different types of crops (grains, 
>root crops, vegetables, mushrooms, fruits), 
>animals (poultry, rabbits, goats, sheep, cattle, 
>pigs, guinea pigs, fish, etc.) as well as 
>non-food products (e.g. aromatic and medicinal 
>herbs, ornamental plants, tree products).
>
>UPA includes trees managed for producing fruit 
>and fuelwood, as well as tree systems integrated 
>and managed with crops (agroforestry) and small-scale aquaculture.
>  Food security
>
>UPA can make an important contribution to 
>household food security, especially in times of crisis or food shortages.
>
>  Produce is either consumed by the producers, 
> or sold in urban markets, such as the 
> increasingly popular weekend farmers’ markets found in many cities.
>
>  Because locally produced food requires less 
> transportation and refrigeration, it can supply 
> nearby markets with fresher and more nutritious 
> products at competitive prices.
>
>  Consumers - especially low-income residents - 
> enjoy easier access to fresh produce, greater choice and better prices.
>  Urban farming
>
>Vegetables have a short production cycle; some 
>can be harvested within 60 days of planting, so 
>are well suited for urban farming.
>
>  Garden plots can be up to 15 times more 
> productive than rural holdings. An area of just 
> one square metre can provide 20 kg of food a year.
>
>  Urban vegetable growers spend less on 
> transport, packaging and storage, and can sell 
> directly through street food stands and market 
> stalls. More income goes to them instead of middlemen.
>
>  Urban agriculture provides employment and 
> incomes for poor women and other disadvantaged groups.
>
>Horticulture can generate one job every 100 sq m 
>garden in production, input supply, marketing 
>and value-addition from producer to consumer.
>
>  However, in many countries, UPA goes 
> unrecognized in agricultural policies and urban planning.
>
>Growers often operate without permits. Since it 
>is officially "invisible", the sector receives 
>no public assistance or oversight in many cities.
>
>  Urban agriculture carries health and 
> environmental risks – potential use of 
> contaminated land and water smells and noise 
> pollution, and inappropriate use of pesticides 
> and of raw organic manure that can leak into 
> water sources. These issues require proper attention.
>  FAO’s role
>
>FAO supports the transformation of UPA into a 
>recognized urban land use and economic activity, 
>integrated into national and local agricultural 
>development strategies, food and nutrition programmes, and urban planning.
>
>  It helps national and regional governments and 
> city administrations optimize their policies 
> and support services for urban and peri-urban 
> agriculture, and improve production, processing and marketing systems.
>
>  Its technical programmes support the work of 
> many UPA partners in cities and urban areas.
>
>It helps member countries to develop the sector 
>via data collection on UPA’s contribution to food security.
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Fear not therefore: for there is nothing covered 
that shall not be revealed; and nothing hid that 
shall not be made known. What I tell you in 
darkness, that speak ye in the light and what ye 
hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops. Matthew 10:26-27

Die Pride and Envie; Flesh, take the poor's advice.
Covetousnesse be gon: Come, Truth and Love arise.
Patience take the Crown; throw Anger out of dores:
Cast out Hypocrisie and Lust, which follows whores:
Then England sit in rest; Thy sorrows will have end;
Thy Sons will live in peace, and each will be a friend.
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