If climate change delivers us warmer temperatures and more rain, will we respond by cramming our landscape with more dairy cows?
Southland has enormous potential for growing food for the increasingly warm and dry parts of the country where new insect pests and lack of water will make growing fruit and vegetables difficult. There will be benefit to our region from a new climate but the direction we take in response to that change will be all important. With food prices rapidly rising world-wide, we would do very well to work toward self-reliance and make the best use of our excellent soils and water resources.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
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Saw your letter in the Times on this and I think you are right. Keep up the letters - people are reading them and taking it in - nice one!
What a thought!More dairy cows poluting our beautiful rivers. I feel that we do need to be growing our own food. World wide increases of food prices are going to push more families to the wall. Food banks will be in even more demand. Lets grow food in more than just the family garden. We could supply the dry areas, create jobs and build Southlands economy at the same time. Way to Go!
Yes are you watching the price of milk and anything made from grain and look out for petrol rises before the middle of next month! A family would do well to get their garden in now! But try telling them that! We've lost the knowledge, have we? We will lose the race if we can't bring back those skills and the understanding that our parents had.
Crops for Soutland were making a lot of sound about this for some time but have gone off the boil - did they come up with anything? I did hear they are looking at biofuel but this is a wolf in sheeps clothing. Biofuels is the next major scandal, grow food for people, not cars!
Yes. Local food production! No need for poisoned produce from the rest of the world when we can produce top quality kai right here.
Basket willow for ethanol, sewage-grown algae for biodiesel, fewer personal cars, more buses, more trains.
Fewer petrol sports, more people sports. Cities for people, not for cars.
Every home a garden, every park an open orchard.
Let's do it!
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