Grow A Sustainable Diet: Planning And Growing To Feed Ourselves And The Earth - Plot & Excerpts
As you are designing your map, use all space wisely. Sustainable diets strive to leave a small footprint. To assess what you have, measure the space you have to work with, draw it out on paper, and divide the garden area into beds. I like 4′ wide garden beds, but some people with a shorter reach prefer 3′ wide beds. The wider the bed, the more efficiently the space is used, up to a point. You will not be efficient if you are not comfortable working in a bed that is too wide.Having wider beds gives you more growing area in proportion to your space. As you can see in Figure 2.1, in the same footprint of 700 ft2, you would have 7 percent more growing space with 4′ wide beds, rather than 3′ wide beds. Within that same footprint, you could gain another 25 ft2 by making the paths 1½′ wide, rather than 2′ wide.Plan your paths. Wide paths are only needed if you are bringing in equipment or lots of people. The narrower your paths, the less you have to manage. I’ve found a good workable width is 18″, which allows room for a rolling stool.
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