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Phone:  970-226-4256

 

Bob Jones
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BUILDING COMMUNITY ONE GARDEN AT A TIME

Have you thought about relinquishing some of your water-hungry lawn to a health-enhancing organic vegetable garden?  That is precisely what Grow Food not Lawns is preparing to support you in creating and sustaining!  The idea of food, not lawns is a quiet revolution emerging as non-profit community-based projects throughout the nation; and which couldn't be more timely as an effort to re-invent ourselves:  in our relationship to nature, in our capacity to build heathly soils, and in the sustainability and quality of our food supplies into the future.

Underlying Beliefs
  • FNL believes we should all eat organic food grown in healthy soil
  • FNL is strongly opposed to chemical lawn sprays
  • FNL believes we should question the safety and quality of any commercially grown food especially food grown outside the U.S.
  • FNL encourages more use of xeric plants
  • FNL helps our community and its families be self sufficient
  • FNL involves working together in gardens

Grow Food not Lawns Documentation
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Grow Food Not Lawns DocumentSuperUser Account 11/26/200754.12Download

Sources of Information

The Cost of Commercially Grown Food
  • Peaking global oil production is resulting in the rising cost of oil.
  • Gas at the pump is 50% higher than a year ago.
  • The Dept of Energy projects a 22% increase in the price of heating oil this winter.
  • Commercial agriculture uses large amounts of gas for tractors and transport plus oil in petroleum based products like herbicides, fungicides, pesticides and plastic packaging. It takes 10 calories of oil to produce 1 calorie of food.
  • Global warming will produce much hotter and drier summers in the Southwest U.S. affect crops
  • Over pumping of aquifers and population growth is pushing up the cost of water.
  • Corn prices have doubled the past two years due to competition for biofuels (20% of corn now goes to ethanol) and demand from China.
  • The growing middle class there wants milk and meat which require grain fed livestock.
  • Wheat prices have doubled
  • Average food costs are up 6.7% in 2007 through Sept but some staples are up much more.
  • Milk is up 13%
  • Eggs up 19% 
  • Bread up 24%.

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