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Unit title: Occupant health and well being;
Principles of Noise and Windpower
Presentation title: How much organic food could be
produced in UK gardens and what
environmental benefits would that bring?
Unit number: B3
Unit date: February 16th 2010
Presentation date: March 22nd 2010
Student name: Craig Embleton
Student number: 0750553
Seminar group: 1 (Melissa Taylor)
e-mail: [email protected]
website: www.greenfrontier.org
How much organic food could be produced in UK gardens and what environmental benefits
would that bring?
The
BEGINNING of
THE GOOD LIFE?
OR
• Introduction
• Land available
• Growing methods
• Quantity of food produced
• Environmental benefits
• Conclusions
• Questions
Contents
Problems:
1. 89% fruit & 43% veg imported
2. Responsible for:
• 2.5% UK’s CO2e
• 45.3% pesticide
• 3.0% / 11.5% / 13.6% NPK fertilisers
3. We throw ¼ away.
Solution?
Introduction
Grow your own!
How much land (000,s ha)
UK Gardens
81
433
11
289
0
100
200
300
400
500 GardensAllotmentsWildlife TrustsFarmed Fruit & Veg
Biointensive Garden
Forest Garden
Garden Design
Biointensive beds
Forest Garden
Glasshouse
PondFertility Patch
Percentage National Consumption
101% 118%
219%
268%
0%
50%
100%
150%
200%
250%
300%
Potatoes Othervegetables
Outdoor fruit Glasshousefruit and
vegetables
Savings in tonnes
• CO2e 16,400,000
• Pesticides 13,878
• Nitrogen 30,706
• Phosphorus 24,794
• Potassium 44,295
Increased wildlife habitat
Millions of trees planted
Ecopsychological
Environmental Benefits
Conclusion
All our fruit and veg if we...• share land.
• stop wasting food.• eat in indigenous season food.Wildlife habitat Pollution .
How much organic food could be produced in UK gardens and what environmental benefits
would that bring?
Questions?