Sentences with phrase «food miles by»

With facilities in Leamington, ON & Delta, OH, NatureFresh ™ Farms reduces food miles by providing locally grown vegetables 12 months a year.

It can also get you pink salt that's «found naturally deep inside the pristine Himalayan Mountains» — and has racked up a fair few food miles by the time it gets to our supermarket shelves.

Not exact matches

Almost all of the food comes from within a 50 - mile radius — which you also might expect, given that Barre as surrounded by good farmland, supporting pigs, chickens, potatoes, steers and dairy cows.

The majority of locations beyond corporate's 200 - mile radius are served by Performance Food Group (PFG).

This has been driven by a number of factors, the first being the increased consumer awareness of food miles and sustainability; secondly the return to a patriotic view of supporting British trade, manufacturing and produce (which in part drove the desire to leave the EU as well); and thirdly the resurgence of the craft phenomenon which has seen a number of small producers and brands gain popularity.

It is difficult to measure the overall food miles of products brought to us by UNFI, as the details of the miles traveled by various foods can change from delivery to delivery, and is dependent an a complex host of factors.

We presume much greater food miles from products delivered by this distributor than from locally produced products.

Spend some quality time with the kids, talking about where the food you eat together is produced, by calculating food miles and your Foodometer.

Sponsored by the Key Largo Fisheries and Key Largo Merchants Association, the fifth annual event at Rowell's Marina, mile marker 104.5 bayside, is a delicious weekend of family fun, food and fish from local waters.

By going the extra mile for delicious, flavorful food, Farmer Boys» guests can count on fresh, cooked - to - order meals every time they visit.

Occasionally Chichester is obliged to turn to the classics to piece out the narrative with passages from Conrad and Richard Henry Dana, but for the most part he draws on the solitary venturers in small craft — Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail alone around the world; Ann Davison, the first woman to sail alone across the Atlantic; Alain Bombard, the French physician who sailed a 15 - foot rubber dinghy 2,750 miles in 65 days to see if it was possible for a man to survive on the ocean without food or water except that provided by fish and rain.

Our basic instinctual tastes were formed by the evolutionary pressures on our hunting / gathering forebears, who typically traveled 10 - 20 miles a day on foot in search of food, and didn't have have surpluses or much grain.

Nearly 3.5 million people live in the area served by the food bank, a territory that covers more than 6,000 square miles and much of the Chicago area and its fringes, including Kankakee and Winnebago Counties, but not Cook County.

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Community Link strives to alleviate hunger by providing, at no charge, food and personal care items to those in need, covering 178 square miles in Northwest Tarrant County: 76052, 76114, 76131, 76135, 76137, 76177, 76179 (any family with a student attending EMS - ISD).

The thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, so called for its striped fur, once sat atop a food chain isolated for millennia by miles of ocean.

People argue against it by saying, «Hey, you know the carbon footprint of flying food thousands of miles is ridiculous so we should grow [things] locally» but the counter argument is, but if you can grow so much wheat sufficiently in Kansas even including the transportation for thousands of miles it's still more efficient in terms of resources.

«The Florida Project,» which takes place along a mile or so of trinket shops, by - the - week motels and junk food emporiums along Route 192 near Disney World, veers this way and that, chasing after various characters.

• Speaking of tours, we are intrigued by Brit poet Simon Armitage's empty - pocket plans to walk a 260 - mile stretch of the English coast this summer, giving poetry readings in exchange for food and shelter.

Mud Bay is admirable for the degree to which they take customer care seriously and they differentiate themselves by going the extra mile, reading scientific studies, interviewing veterinary nutritionists, visiting the manufacturing facilities and collecting anecdotal data about how well a food feeds.

Hill's goes the extra mile for its clients by developing food that's ideal for certain disorders.

Unlike other dog food companies that add a couple of ingredients to «pad the label» in an attempt to lure dog owners in, Horizon has gone the full mile by creating a well - rounded and comprehensive formula that covers all the bases needed for a healthy gut.

Some of those issues are international ones, such as restrictions on fishing in our economic zone, which stretches 200 miles beyond the Reef, and which is being eyed by many countries as a potential source of food for them, not us.

Here you'll find a 2 - mile stretch of trendy bar and restaurant - lined boardwalk, the ideal spot to sink a few beers, tuck into some local food and watch the world go by.

The 41 kilometre (25 mile), four - day, three - night Margaret River Cape to Cape Walk, by Walk Into Luxury, is a lodge - based, guided, small group walk that combines the best parts of the Cape to Cape track with gourmet food and wine experiences showcasing this famous region.

Some 7,000 Dakota were sent to a 10 - mile strip of mostly non-arable land and, by the winter of 1862, they were starving and were refused food and provisions.

A table at least a quarter of a mile long groaned with food for the 150 or so people during cocktails on the road above the old stone Slaughterhouse by the sea.

By cutting down food miles, you're cutting back on the embodied carbon in the food, as well as helping out local growers.

This is an appeal to FMCG guys: make it easy for us and we will oone by one make such a difference in food miles Annne

Edible Portland, a magazine published by environmental nonprofit Ecotrust, holds a Local Food Hero contest every year to recognize businesses that go the extra mile for social, environmental and economic sustainability.

You heard us right: Inmates from a prison just outside of Milan will help Italy lick climate change by churning up gelato made from local milk and fruit, slashing food miles and cutting carbon emissions.

But think of the fuel wasted to ship foods across the country, and you'll appreciated the food miles saved by eating locally.

As far as I've been able to compare the scaleability, costs, risks, verifiability and benefits of BECCS, DACCS and CRFS [Carbon Recovery for Food Security] the latter wins by a country mile, though its major co-benefits would depend on good operational design and management.

In short, it was doing everything right: reducing food miles, staying away from petroleum inputs, sequestering carbon in the soil, reducing landfill by composting, fighting inequality and food insecurity.

The type of article lamented by a few commenters on my recent post about food miles vs. food choices made an appearance in Salon a few days ago.

There is still some debate over the carbon accounting and the circumstances will differ by product but its safe to say that a focus on food miles is unmerited by the evidence.

Whether it's cancer, drinking water contamination, toxic or radioactive chemicals, earthquakes or regulations — the truth is miles from the misrepresentations, hysteria and fear - mongering propagated by Food & Water Watch and similar groups.

Based upon a 2000 study by the Center for Sustainable Systems at University of Michigan, the average item of food in the U.S. travels around 1,500 miles to your table.

By another estimate that includes transportation of inputs to farms and factories, typical food items travel up to 4,200 miles in their journey along the supply chain.

In his research, he found that in fact, 90 percent of Americans could be fed entirely by food grown or raised within 100 miles of their homes.

Growing some of the food you eat because you're trying to reduce your food miles, vote with your plate by eating heritage foods, or just want to eat healthier, is a lot easier than most people think.

Leaving aside for a moment questions of procurement and fair trade, and questions of greenhouse gas emissions associated with food miles, there has to be a real opportunity here to make a difference just by giving a damn.Given all this, I decided to send emails to three of the biggest companies in Canada: Starbucks, The Second Cup, and Tim Hortons.

If you expand your search by 50 miles you will find 5 additional Watkinsville Food Poisoning Lawyers and law firms.

By simply surfing the web, anyone can order food and delivered right at their doorsteps, book a hotel thousands of miles away though online accommodations, or perhaps manage bank accounts without lifting the car keys.