Below is some water usage data for an urban farming operation in Kansas City, Kansas.
Paul Grahovac 1.3 acres cultivated and watered. During weather like June and July of this year, the field gets watered about once a week for about 6 hours and the hoophouses get water twice a week for about 6 hours each time. All watering done with drip tape. One CCFS = 748 gallons. 235 CCFS May 28 thru June 27 82 CCFS april 28 thru 5/27 46 CCF march 28 thru april 27 28 CCFS Feb 28 thru March 27 On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:00 AM, < community_garden-requ...@list.communitygarden.org> wrote: > Send Community_garden mailing list submissions to > community_garden@list.communitygarden.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > community_garden-requ...@list.communitygarden.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > community_garden-ow...@list.communitygarden.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Community_garden digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Policy on Community Gardens on Private Land (Sam Jones) > 2. water usage (Cocke, Abby) > 3. Re: water usage (Guy Serbin) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:44:57 -0700 (PDT) > From: Sam Jones <simplei...@yahoo.com> > To: "community_garden@list.communitygarden.org" > <community_garden@list.communitygarden.org> > Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Policy on Community Gardens on Private > Land > Message-ID: > <1311615897.77026.yahoomail...@web121015.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hello Bill, > ?Sacramento serves as an inspiration for the rest of us in terms of > supporting laws that make sense. I'm very intrigued with your comment about > having the 'chicken law passed by the end of the year'. I'm the garden > coordinator for the Carver Community Garden located in Johnson City, TN and > my long term (secret-til now!) plan is to have chickens there. In the > meantime I've very recently started to focus on getting the laws changed to > allow folks to have a small flock in the city limits. Can you offer me any > resources, ideas, contacts or words of wisdom to those of us that are > working to get chickens in the city? In the meantime, I've started a > facebook page to bring attention to my efforts, called C.O.O.P. "Chickens on > our Property". I'd love it every single person on this list would "like" it! > Here's the link: > > https://www.facebook.com/pages/COOP-Group-Chickens-On-Our-Property/144688882277880?sk=wall > Hope to hear from you again soon, and hope your ordinance is passed > tonight, > Sam > > ? > "Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money > to buy food."? > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20110725/2bfec32d/attachment.html > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:44:36 -0400 > From: "Cocke, Abby" <abby.co...@baltimorecity.gov> > To: <community_garden@list.communitygarden.org> > Subject: [Community_garden] water usage > Message-ID: > > <2d9403885df8ab4783348db5e9f2e272066ad...@balt-exch2-srv.baltimore.city> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > I was wondering if anyone had any figures on how much water their garden > uses... per quarter, per year, anything like that? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Abby Cocke > > Environmental Planner, Office of Sustainability > > Baltimore City Department of Planning > > 417 East Fayette Street, 8th Floor > > Baltimore, Maryland 21202 > > 410-396-1670 Phone > > 410-244-7358 Fax > > abby.co...@baltimorecity.gov <mailto:beth.strom...@baltimorecity.gov> > > > > > > > > Please consider the environment prior to printing. > > > > www.baltimoresustainability.org <http://www.baltimoresustainability.org> > > > www.facebook.com/baltimoresustainability > <http://www.facebook.com/baltimoresustainability> > > Sign up for the Baltimore Sustainability newsletter! > <http://baltimoresustainability.us2.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=648ddea > ff0cd176b731896e4a&id=8a08a6c000<http://baltimoresustainability.us2.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=648ddeaff0cd176b731896e4a&id=8a08a6c000> > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20110726/c9f1e18e/attachment.html > > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: image001.png > Type: image/png > Size: 9615 bytes > Desc: image001.png > URL: < > http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20110726/c9f1e18e/attachment.png > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:41:29 -0400 > From: Guy Serbin <guy.ser...@gmail.com> > To: "Cocke, Abby" <abby.co...@baltimorecity.gov> > Cc: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org > Subject: Re: [Community_garden] water usage > Message-ID: > <CAFqdjgTbpgdk8-8+br9dqLCMV9uLky+8DdF45-P4X4=oec1...@mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Abby, > > That would vary based upon climate, crop, gardener experience, > irrigation technology, maintenance, etc. As such, I wouldn't use > irrigation data from anywhere outside of your area unless it had a > comparable climate. A first start would be to put in place water > meters on any irrigation systems and then keep a log of irrigation > usage at regular intervals. As for precipitation, you'd need to use > weather station data or NEXRAD precipitation data to estimate that > unless the farms have on-site stations. Some of the larger community > farms in the Baltimore area may have some data on that, e.g., the > Kayam Farm at the Pearlstone Center in Reisterstown, MD, but I don't > know if the smaller ones, e.g., the Whitelock Community Farm in > Reservoir Hill, does. > > Sincerely, > Guy Serbin > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Cocke, Abby > <abby.co...@baltimorecity.gov> wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone had any figures on how much water their garden > > uses... per quarter, per year, anything like that? > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > Abby Cocke > > > > Environmental Planner, Office of Sustainability > > > > Baltimore City Department of Planning > > > > 417 East Fayette Street, 8th Floor > > > > Baltimore, Maryland 21202 > > > > 410-396-1670?Phone > > > > 410-244-7358?Fax > > > > abby.co...@baltimorecity.gov <mailto:beth.strom...@baltimorecity.gov> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Please consider the environment prior to printing. > > > > > > > > www.baltimoresustainability.org <http://www.baltimoresustainability.org> > > > > > > www.facebook.com/baltimoresustainability > > <http://www.facebook.com/baltimoresustainability> > > > > Sign up for the Baltimore Sustainability newsletter! > > <http://baltimoresustainability.us2.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=648ddea > > ff0cd176b731896e4a&id=8a08a6c000> > > > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > > URL: < > http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20110726/c9f1e18e/attachment.html > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > > Name: image001.png > > Type: image/png > > Size: 9615 bytes > > Desc: image001.png > > URL: < > http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20110726/c9f1e18e/attachment.png > > > > _______________________________________________ > > The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of > ACGA's services to community gardeners. 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