Create "Personal Edible Landscapes" collateral

[smlambert]

In support of the Sept 15th fundraiser workshop and for the Oct 5th Sustainability event, create an "Edible Landscape" kit

Existing materials to start from:

• Nanabush/Shelley's edible landscapes design workshop materials
• Statistics regarding % of agricultural land on planet, amount of available land based on household lawn sizes
• Stats regarding % of calories feasible to grow for yourself on certain area of land (2000 calorie / person daily, 50% carbs, 20% protein, 30% fat)
• Info about food security, and import of food into Ontario
• Data on yields from food-bearing trees (plus actual data from smlambert/yields repo)
• Lawn conversion guild plans (some need minor updates based on replacements for certain species)

The "kit" can contain:

• example plans
  • breakdown of how much food they could produce by X years (knowing yields possible when certain species reach maturity)
  • what the approximate breakdown of carbs/proteins/fats, what % of a family's diet could be sourced from it
  • what are the gaps that would need to be covered by purchasing groceries
  • Implications and what the impact on the planet from not purchasing imported food, industrial food, packaged food?
• Info on how to plant safely in urban spaces (riffing off of the Site assessment considerations from this blog post)
• design grid whiteboard & dry-erase marker
• questionnaire relating to the "Know Yourself"/(Know your Site) slide from the In a food forest slide deck

[smlambert]

Notes to hit for Sustainability points:

90\10% conversion rate is an average for all animal products. but meat is much more inefficient. beef is one of the most inefficient (according to ourworldindata.org) with a 98% - 2% conversion rate - meaning the cow takes 98% to produce 2% in terms of calories.

I am not advocating shifting to full vegan diet, but an increase in the percentage of our diet based on vegetables, fruits, nuts, mushrooms and a reduction in animal consumption is more restorative to the planet.

Land use for nuts is 'funny' because you can grow pulses and grains and vegetables right up to the trunk of trees, so food forests / tree guilds optimize land use and maximize what can be grown in certain surface area.

[smlambert]

In general, most adults should target their diets to comprise of 45-65% Carbohydrates, 20-35% Protein and 10-30% Fat. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/best-macronutrient-ratio

[smlambert]

From this reference, average Canadian lawn size is 400 sq m (1/2 a tennis court).

US stats, average is 1009.9489 sq m