1. Session 2 - Food – Does your Dinner need a Passport? Join the Green Revolution - TSP/SBCC Personal Food Gardens FOOD NOT LAWNS! 18 th Century French Aristocrats

2. Session 2 - Food – Does your Dinner need a Passport? Join the Green Revolution - TSP/SBCC Personal Food Gardens FOOD NOT LAWNS! The lawns in the US consume around 270 Billion gallons of water a week enough to water 81 million acres of organic veggies all summer long. 58 million Americans spend approximately 30 Billion dollars every year to maintain more than 23 Million acres of lawn. The EPA estimates that a mower emits as much pollution in one hour as a car emits in driving 20 miles. Numerous studies have linked common household herbicides and pesticides to asthma, cancer, reduced fertility and neurological harm to fetuses, infants and children.

3. Session 2 - Food – Does your Dinner need a Passport? Join the Green Revolution - TSP/SBCC Personal Food Gardens FOOD NOT LAWNS! Only one-fourth of all U.S. households grow some of their own produce, says the Census Bureau. It is time to grow food, not lawns!

4. Session 2 - Food – Does your Dinner need a Passport? Join the Green Revolution - TSP/SBCC Personal Food Gardens What you can do in your backyard: "Eaters must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used," - - wrote famed agrarian essayist Wendell Berry

5. Session 2 - Food – Does Your Dinner Need a Passport? Join the Green Revolution - TSP/SBCC Personal Food Gardens What you can do in your backyard: Apartment/Condos Apartment Gardens ½ wine barrels Planters Vertical space (climbers) Hanging baskets

6. Session 2 - Food – Does Your Dinner Need a Passport? Join the Green Revolution - TSP/SBCC Personal Food Gardens What you can do in your backyard: Apartment/Condos

7. Session 2 - Food – Does Your Dinner Need a Passport? Join the Green Revolution - TSP/SBCC Personal Food Gardens What you can do in your backyard: Small Yards Raised beds Planters ½ wine barrels Compost Bins Worm Bin

8. Session 2 - Food – Does Your Dinner Need a Passport? Join the Green Revolution - TSP/SBCC Personal Food Gardens What you can do in your backyard: Small Yards

9. Session 2 - Food – Does Your Dinner Need a Passport? Join the Green Revolution - TSP/SBCC Personal Food Gardens What you can do in your backyard: Small Yards

10. Session 2 - Food – Does Your Dinner Need a Passport? Join the Green Revolution - TSP/SBCC Personal Food Gardens What you can do in your backyards: Medium Yard Fruit Trees Ponds Fences Edible Ornamentals Raised Beds

11. Session 2 – Food – Does Your Dinner Need a Passport? Join the Green Revolution - TSP/SBCC Personal Food Gardens What you can do in your backyards: Medium Yards

12. Session 2 – Food – Does Your Dinner Need a Passport? Join the Green Revolution - TSP/SBCC Personal Food Gardens What you can do in your backyards: Medium Yards

13. Session 2 – Food – Does Your Dinner Need a Passport? Join the Green Revolution - TSP/SBCC Personal Food Gardens What you can do in your backyards: Medium Yards

14. Session 2 – Food – Does Your Dinner Need a Passport? Join the Green Revolution - TSP/SBCC Personal Food Gardens What you can do in your backyards: Medium Yards

15. Session 2 – Food – Does Your Dinner Need a Passport? Join the Green Revolution - TSP/SBCC Personal Food Gardens What you can do in your backyards: Medium Yards

16. Session 2 – Food - Does your Dinner need a Passport? Join the Green Revolution - TSP/SBCC Personal Food Gardens What you can do in your backyards: Large Yard Fruit Trees/Orchard Kids Garden Specialty Crops Chicken Coup Goats

17. Session 2 – Food – Does Your Dinner Need a Passport? Join the Green Revolution - TSP/SBCC Personal Food Gardens What you can do in your backyards: Large Yards

18. Session 2 – Food – Does Your Dinner Need a Passport? Join the Green Revolution - TSP/SBCC Personal Food Gardens What you can do in your backyards: Large Yards

19. Session 2 – Food – Does Your Dinner Need a Passport? Join the Green Revolution - TSP/SBCC Personal Food Gardens What you can do in your backyards: Large Yards (check the city or county zoning ordinance!)

20. Session 2 – Food – Does Your Dinner Need a Passport? Join the Green Revolution - TSP/SBCC Personal Food Gardens What you can do in your backyards: Linda & Larry’s Food Forest "Food Forests seek to mimic the resiliency, complexity and diversity of natural systems. They provide food, forage, fiber and fuel in quantities limited only by the designer's imagination" - Bill Mollison

21. Session 2 – Food – Does Your Dinner Need a Passport? Join the Green Revolution - TSP/SBCC Personal Food Gardens What you can do in your backyards: Linda & Larry’s Food Forest

22. Session 2 – Food – Does Your Dinner Need a Passport? Join the Green Revolution - TSP/SBCC Personal Food Gardens What you can do in your backyards: Linda & Larry’s Food Forest

23. Session 2 – Food – Does Your Dinner Need a Passport? Join the Green Revolution - TSP/SBCC Personal Food Gardens What you can do in your backyards: Linda & Larry’s Food Forest

24. Session 2 – Food – Does Your Dinner Need a Passport? Join the Green Revolution - TSP/SBCC Personal Food Gardens What you can do in your neighborhood: Food Sheds The foodshed concept, most often attributed to Arthur Getz's in his 1991 Urban Foodsheds article in Permaculture Activist, uses the analogy of a watershed to describe 'the area that is defined by a structure of supply'. Getz used the image of a foodshed to answer the question of "Where our food is coming from and how it is getting to us" and to picture how the local and regional food supply system works. Inherent in this concept, he emphasized, was 'the suggestion of a need to protect a source, as well as the need to know and understand its specific geographic and ecological dimensions, condition and stability in order for it to be safeguarded and enhanced.'

25. Session 2 – Food – Does Your Dinner Need a Passport? Join the Green Revolution - TSP/SBCC Personal Food Gardens What you can do in your neighborhood: Mesa Garden Exchange/Food Sheds www.mesaexchange.org Who: Mesa Neighbors What: Mesa Garden Exchange Bring your extra homegrown veggies, fruits, herbs, flowers, seeds, seedlings, compost worms, chicken eggs, etc. Where: Different neighbor every month Why: To share produce with neighbors, to talk gardens, to meet new friends and catch-up with old friends. When: First Sunday of the Month SIGN UP TO START YOUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD GARDEN EXCHANGE TODAY!

26. Session 2 – Food – Does Your Dinner Need a Passport? Join the Green Revolution - TSP/SBCC Personal Food Gardens What you can do in your Community: Local Resources Island Seed and Feed – 29 S. Fairview Ave. Agri-Turf Supplies – 2257 Las Positas Green Gardeners Landscape designers specializing in edibles – WELDesign, www.WELDesign.net Organic Gardening & SB Permaculture listservs Master Gardener Program Organic Resource Guide Classes/Events–Botanic Garden, SBCC, Adult Ed Community Gardens