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"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote:
Oh come on! Sydney people wouldn't know a water shortage if it bit
them on the arse. They only think they do.
Frankly, you don't either. Talk to a Sudanese refugee some time. It's all a
matter of degree.
Again, not in my experience. They lack the sort of curiosity and
solution orientation of country people. They have everything handed
to them on a platter and so don't have to come up with innovative or
real life solutions or have to spend time thinking about things that
country people do. This country approach I have always found flows
over into broader mainstream approaches to world politics and foreign
affairs.
Contry people being well-known for the speed with which they embrace change...
Lord knows where they
thought (if they did think at all) of where their food came from.
again speaking for sydney - most fresh food there is grown in the
sydney basin - it's local :-) (for now, anyway). again, it seems to take a
crisis (farmland possibly being taken away for development) for people to
realise what might be lost. argh!
Not so! You have either not been out of the city long enough or have
just proved my point about where city people think their food comes
from.
Depends exactly what Otterbot means.
http://www.liverpool.nsw.gov.au/scri....asp?NID=27077
Includes the following information from someone at UWS:
'³Agricultural land around Sydney is critically important, particularly when
you consider that 90 per cent of the perishable vegetables eaten in Sydney and
40 per cent of NSW¹s eggs are produced right here,² Parker says.
Parker says that the farm gate value of agriculture in the Sydney basin is
worth $1 billion.'
There are still plenty of orchards on the fringes of Sydney, though not as
many as there used to be. I remember going up to Bilpin to get fresh peaches
when I was a kid. Yum...
Farmers were talking about Global warming and climate change long
before the bulk of the population. Only the real lunatic city
fringe were talking about those things when I knew of dead boring and
very conservative farmers who'd noticed the impact on their land.
When?
I bought my copy of Blueprint for a Green Planet in 1987, the year I did my
HSC (in a middle-class suburb), and it has a page on the greenhouse effect.
I suggest you do two things. Do some reading up on P.A. Yeomans. He
was a farmer whose published material goes back to the mid 1950s. The
second thing is to look at the 2006-07 copy of the ABCs "Open Garden
Scheme", page 22 on Lyndfield Park. That farmer started work on his
farm in 1982 and even then what he was doing was not unique. All that
knowledge was around even then.
http://gunningnsw.info/index.php/articles/483
will get you the booklet on Lyndfield Park. Unfortunately the author doesn't
say where he got his ideas from, but some of the ideas sound like they are out
of the Permaculture Design Manual.
Google PA Yeomans for the goss on him.
--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
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