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 <[email protected]> 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 > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > > > > > > 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. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out > how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org > > To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: > http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org > _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
