Sentences with phrase «local food systems as»

«Polyface Farm in Swoope promotes local food systems as part of the local economy.

Ask students to list some of the problems they might see within the local food system as defined by the boundaries in Part 1.

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From Northern Mississippi to southern New York, a bounty of entrepreneurs, including bakers, brewers and butchers as well as chefs, retailers and farmers, are contributing to the Region's local food system.

As a Certified B Corporation, founding member of Slow Money, and member of 1 % For the Planet, Mamma Chia donates 1 % of all its gross sales to support farmers, community groups and organizations that are building healthy and local food systems.

As another example, 53 Hannaford stores have partnered with a local anaerobic digestion system at a dairy farm to recycle Hannaford's packaged food waste.

With a mission such as: «to grow and sustain local food systems worldwide», I was immediately intrigued.

Members of the public who attend the full - day Good Food Festival programming have the opportunity to learn directly from experienced farmers and gardeners through long - form DIY workshops and «Good Food Commons» mini-sessions; hear from thought leader panelists about the future of our agricultural system; watch cooking demos, emphasizing local food, by culinary leaders such as Frontera's Rick Bayless and One Off Hospitality's Paul Kahan (both past recipients of FamilyFarmed's Good Food Chef of the Year Award); and engage with more than 150 farmer, food business, and nonprofit exhibitFood Festival programming have the opportunity to learn directly from experienced farmers and gardeners through long - form DIY workshops and «Good Food Commons» mini-sessions; hear from thought leader panelists about the future of our agricultural system; watch cooking demos, emphasizing local food, by culinary leaders such as Frontera's Rick Bayless and One Off Hospitality's Paul Kahan (both past recipients of FamilyFarmed's Good Food Chef of the Year Award); and engage with more than 150 farmer, food business, and nonprofit exhibitFood Commons» mini-sessions; hear from thought leader panelists about the future of our agricultural system; watch cooking demos, emphasizing local food, by culinary leaders such as Frontera's Rick Bayless and One Off Hospitality's Paul Kahan (both past recipients of FamilyFarmed's Good Food Chef of the Year Award); and engage with more than 150 farmer, food business, and nonprofit exhibitfood, by culinary leaders such as Frontera's Rick Bayless and One Off Hospitality's Paul Kahan (both past recipients of FamilyFarmed's Good Food Chef of the Year Award); and engage with more than 150 farmer, food business, and nonprofit exhibitFood Chef of the Year Award); and engage with more than 150 farmer, food business, and nonprofit exhibitfood business, and nonprofit exhibitors.

Secondly, they want «resilient food production systems», which utilise ecological production methods, and are based on «a multitude of smallholder farmers, gardeners and small - scale fishers who produce local food as the backbone of the food system».

And so as the Polyfaces, White Oaks, Gunthorps, Jonai, Buena Vistas, and Old Mill farms of the world toil to grow food deeply embedded in our local communities and imbued with their values of respect for people and animals and care for the land, we must support them / us, just as we must find ways to help others get onto the land to grow more food in small - scale agroecological systems.

We can choose to support a more equitable and sustainable food system by purchasing local, organic or small - scale produced food as well as adopting a plant - based diet, low in animal products - which have the highest eco-footprint.

Our hope is to have the U.S. government, in partnership with the many stakeholders in the food system, including producers, manufacturers, retailers, non-profits and food advocacy groups, faith organizations as well as leaders from state, tribal, and local government, join in using the Call to Action as an opportunity to further individual and collective actions on preventing food waste.

As a B Corporation, we work closely with value - similar suppliers, producers, and local communities to help create more informed eaters and more resilient, responsive and sustainable regional food systems.

While the French food culture in itself encourages eating local, there is another even bigger reason why the French school system can put locally grown foods on the school lunch menus: the monies for the school lunches are organized within local municipalities, not primarily on a federal level, as they are in America.

«Though the over-reliance on the mono - economic system is also a contributory factor to this financial impasse but I can assure every citizen that the present government of President Muhammadu Buhari would not rest on his oars at repositioning the nation's economy by ensuring adequate production of foods for local consumption as well as for export.

The summit attracted foreign and local investors including; the Consul General of the Embassy of France in Nigeria, Laurent Polonceaux; the Nigerian Director of a French Group known as Proparco, Olivier Follin; the Irish Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Sean Hoy, as well as director of an Irish organisation, Sustainable Food Systems Ireland.

So does the food system, once you get away from growing food [in] oil which is our current preoccupation and one that isn't going to last much longer, the need for local production and control and whatever food has the same, and I was trying to argue at the end I think much the same thing is sort of happening with culture as well, that we have simultaneously this incredibly interesting global thing, the Internet and it's allowing you to live very locally and globally at the same time.

Preliminary analysis, as detailed by Li and co-authors in the December issue of the journal Archaeological Research in Asia, suggests that the irrigation system was built in the 3rd or 4th century A.D. by local herding communities looking to add more crop cultivation to their mix of food and livestock production.

BPA has been found to leach into substances it contacts, including the food and beverages stored in containers made with the chemical, as well as into local food and water systems.

Although I dislike (and disagree with) some of the drama that surrounds the food topics that these books address, as a result of reading them I began to educate myself on our food system and eating in a way that feels right to me while keeping science, and local and global issues in mind.

Year 4 Science Assessments Objectives covered: Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C) Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases Identify common appliances that run on electricity Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors

AuthorImprints Services: eBook conversion About the book: Droves of people have turned to local food as a way to retreat from our broken industrial food system.

But a robust local food system — such as the one in B.C.'s lower mainland — requires the protection of good, agricultural land.

Save enough money and you can install automated systems to keep your crops watered and animals fed (or, if you prefer, you can snag yourself a husband or wife, who can take some of the burden) allowing you to focus on other hobbies and interests, such as brewing craft beer, beekeeping, crab - catching, playing on the arcade machine in the local bar, or cooking the various recipes you learn from watching the food channel on your TV.

Our interest in aquaponics as a means of supporting local and sustainable food production grew as we continued our research into food, food production, distribution, and the industrialized food system that has developed since World War II.

In chronicling our efforts, we believe we can help shed some light on both the great work that has been in play to create local / regional food systems as well as identify the gaps when it comes to the practicality of trying to eat locally / regionally.

Ripe Near Me users can sign up to either post produce or other local foods (such as eggs) that they are willing to sell, swap, or share with others, or to find local homegrown or wild food items for their own consumption (or both), which could serve to make local food systems stronger and more diverse and resilient.

Indeed, as I argue in this article, I think it will be absolutely essential that we shift much of our current wasteful fossil fuel use (e.g., shipping the same goods back and forth across the ocean, driving gas - powered private automobiles, and producing disposable consumer goods) toward building new infrastructure for long - term resilience (e.g., local food economies, low - energy housing, greenspace, water catchment and storage, clean energy systems, trains, and, yes, wind - powered sea vessels!).

As fossil fuels decline, we'll need to rehabilitate rural economies, re-nutrify denuded soils, and rebuild diverse local food systems.

At a more local level, there's a related issue, but we've pretty much poisoned our food systems, our groundwater, our air, and, I think that as EVO helps raise awareness around the relevance of what goes in to the products we consume, and as we facilitate better access to responsibly - produced products and services, we can help people re-think what they buy and where they buy it from.

As we feasted on organic chocolate chip cookies, lemon loaf and local strawberries, we discussed the serious, sometimes frightening topic of developing a just food system...»

Some of the credits available within the LEED - ND Rating system deal with issues such as wetland and water body conservation, access to public space, local food production, heat island reduction, district heating and cooling and comprehensive waste management.

Which of course doesn't negate the non-carbon aspects of the benefits of eating as much local food as possible: Connection with your food producers, eating seasonal to as to be more in touch with your environment, money staying in the local economy, supporting diverse agricultural systems, etc., etc..

And if their local food system continues to develop as it has thus far, Hardwick could be on the leading edge of a re-localization revolution.

And there is such a system that can offer a variety of benefits to not just the grower, their local neighborhood, and their community, but can also address some of the larger challenges that we as a species are facing, such as water and food scarcity, decreasing soil health, and resource depletion.

Putting a partner under contract to use a standardized system with Amazon's beans (using coordinated deliveries of local dairy supplies) with an included service plan is all that needs to be developed as an overall package offering to a food service business looking to increase its customer reach.