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: admin@greenfrontier.org

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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?