Food security for Canterbury
From:
Tim Kerr
Date:
Jun 11 06:12 UTC
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Too me Matt, yeah... but to people who don't like raking up leaves, or
walking on squashed fruit, or who don't like thorns in their bicycle tyres
or who have a little child allergic to whatever the fruit, berry, seed, bud
or pollen is currently the allergy flavour of the month, an edible forest
would be a source of complaint to our dear CCC.
In fact, we hve harvested black boy peaches from the kindergarten next door
and bottled some and made the rest into jam.
And Brian, so far the bees seem to be doing OK - it's a bit like the cabbage
tree scare - the trees were dying off and extincting themselves before
botanists' very eyes. It was only a matter of time....
Varoa mite is a problem - a big one - but studies have shown many plants
"dependent" on bee pollination in fact are willing to be pollinated by quite
a wide range of alternative vectors - including native bees. We just won't
have so much honey...
But all the GM arguments are beyond me - I'm happy with stuffing about with
GM within a specie - but not too keen on trans-specific fiddling.
Cheers,
Tim kerr
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Morris" <theyellowroom@xtra.co.nz>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Canterbury Issues] Food security for Canterbury
> But even if there was no armageddon (and that will only happen if we are
> boring enough to keep doing things the way we currently are, snore...)
> doesn't the idea of an urban edible forest sound appealling?
> Matt Morris
>
> Tim Kerr <Tim.Kerr@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> Cripes!!!!
>
> What date is Armaggeddon?
>
> Just wondering....
>
> Tim Kerr.....
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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>> Hi Andrew
>> from a Community Board perspective I can say that I couldn't agree more.
>> We can do a lot better than we are doing in terms of enhancing our food
>> security. Community gardens and school gardens are obviously part of the
>> solution.
>> But there are even simpler options we could look at that would at least
>> help. One, planting fruit and nut trees in streets and/or parks is, you'd
>> think, a complete no brainer, a very easy means of future-proofing.
>> However, when I asked the question recently council staff informed me
>> that
>> there is actually a policy stating that such trees mustn't be planted!
>> On the up-side, the Shirley-Papanui community board has formally endorsed
>> the Transition Communities model as it applies to our ward, and we are
>> now
>> exploring how this appalling policy about fruit trees can be ammended. We
>> have also built supporting community gardens into our board objectives...
>> a small step but hopefully a meaningful one.
>> A joint discussion between the agencies you mentioned seems like a great
>> idea to me.
>>
>> Matt Morris
>> Chair, Greenspace and Traffic Works Committee
>> Shirley Papanui Community Board
>>
>>
>> andrew wrote:
>> On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 13:36 +1200, Brian Sandle wrote:
>>> I feel the Canterbury Plains with the proposed irrigation scheme may be
>>> a target for GMO biofuels and feed crops, with disaster in store for
>>> us.
>>
>> I agree, Brian, it would be a disaster. We're now well into the period
>> that James Kunstler has dubbed the "Long Emergency" [1]. It's not your
>> classic civil defence emergency that triggers our fight or flight
>> response, and it's not business as usual which triggers our "sit on your
>> backside and do nothing" response :-) - it's a whole new animal to deal
>> with but deal with it we must.
>>
>> I think it's time for ECan, CCC and other groups to get together to do
>> some strategic planning around medium-to-long term food security for the
>> region. I know this is not within the normal scope of either agency, but
>> these are not normal times ...
>>
>> Are there any politicians in the group (who are still listening)
>> prepared to comment on this ?
>>
>> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Emergency
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>>
>> Andrew Groom
>> Bryndwr, Christchurch
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