Sentences with phrase «sustaining food community»

He sees this as a chance to prove the validity of the organization's model for building an economical, self - sustaining food community around local resources, an approach sparked by Curtin's observation that the kitchen's regular purchases of hothouse tomatoes flown in from Belgium seemed out of whack.

Not exact matches

«When consumers enjoy our ice creams, they are also helping to sustain family farming, revitalize rural communities, and support a thriving regional food system.»

Guided by five bottom lines — Sustaining our Business, our Brands, our People, our Community and the Planet — Matthew works with state and federal officials, academia, ingredient suppliers, farmers within Clif agriculture supply chain and the organic industry to improve the success of the rural communities from which we source our food.

It is part of a responsible food system that sustains you, the producers, and the craftspeople, restaurants, and stores who support their communities and respect the environment.

What is the potential of urban agriculture to be a source of community development, in terms of generating employment and additional income for hard - pressed family budgets, and helping to establish self - sustaining local and regional food economies?

Starting with a focus on food and agriculture, the company's environmental commitment grew into a larger business model that encompasses Five Aspirations, or bottom lines: Sustaining Business, Brands, People, Community and the Planet.

The agreement, signed at the historic Band Shell in Twin Falls City Park, joins the company and the city into a partnership where both aspire to sustain the community, its people and the region's natural resources in southern Idaho, while creating nutritious and organic food.

«When children learn as early as possible where their food comes from, they are more likely to eat fresh, nutritious foods that will sustain healthy choices that spread to families and communities.»

One doctor who wrote a newspaper column in my community stated that it was impossible for breast milk to provide enough calories to sustain normal growth in an infant after eight weeks, so solid foods were essential.

«Our agricultural industry not only drives our local economy but it sustains healthy communities with fresh local foods and preserves our overall quality of living.»

Tall forests blocked out the sunlight, while providing the firewood, animal bedding, fertilizer and even food that sustained these farming communities.

The battle for fish should be about securing and sustaining livelihoods for fishing communities around the world, and ensuring that important food supplies are maintained.

«That's going to disrupt food chains that sustain the kinds of creatures we're used to seeing at the poles — sea lions, penguins, and whales — and instead promote a microbe - dominated community,» he says.

Recognize that mountain ecosystems inhabited by snow leopards provide essential ecosystem services, including storing and releasing water from the origins of river systems benefitting one - third of the world's human population; sustaining the pastoral and agricultural livelihoods of local communities which depend on biodiversity for food, fuel, fodder, and medicine; and offering inspiration, recreation, and economic opportunities;

CSA stands for Community Sustained Agriculture and is a great way for you to buy seasonal food from your local farmers.

As a member of a vibrant and recovering community, as a teacher of gentle and restorative yoga, as a student and soon to be master gardener, the knowledge and application of ayurvedic principals could enable me to grow and teach others to grow our own food; to amend our flooded and sewage damaged soil for growing edible foods; to learn and teach others to eat seasonable foods that will sustain not only our bodies, but provide for others.

Your support helps to conserve soil and ensure food security, to sustain rural community's livelihoods, and build resilience to climate change.

The knowledge gained from learning how to grow one's own food and sustain a community garden has far - reaching benefits that are now accessible within walking distance of the Callahan Community Center, where the program icommunity garden has far - reaching benefits that are now accessible within walking distance of the Callahan Community Center, where the program iCommunity Center, where the program is hosted.

Your support helps to conserve soil and ensure food security, to sustain rural community's livelihoods, and build resilience to climate change.

The water footprint of a person, family, community, nation is the total volume of fresh water used to produce the goods (including food) and services consumed, in other words, the water footprint is the volume of water required to sustain a personal or family lifestyle or indeed a global population;

As we make and serve our food we do so with the an intention and awareness of our 5 aspirations which are sustaining our people, sustaining our planet, sustaining our communities, sustaining our brands and sustaining our company.

Included in the short - list are Ample Harvest — who featured on Jaymi's list of 10 Techy Tools for Gardeners — and who aim to match excess garden produce with food pantries around the country; CISA (Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture), which runs one of the oldest buy - local campaigns in the country; and Farming Concrete, which is aiming to quantify and track the amount of food grown in inner - city areas.

Friends of the Earth works to advance organic for all: for our health, our families and our communities; for the farmers and farmworkers who grow our food; for the land that provides us with nourishment, the pollinators that make food production possible and the climate and ecosystems that sustain all of life.

Such a regulation can not be sustained as an exercise of police power upon the ground that economic security of the dairyman works for the sanitary security of the community by insuring both an adequate supply and a wholesome quality of a necessary food.

Community dietary patterns were found to respond directly to improved stock management and food supply, 5,6 and multistrategy, community - directed nutrition programs in some remote communities resulted in marked and sustained improvements in anthropometrical, biochemical and haematological risk factors for chronic disease.7, 8 Knowledge gained from such studies has broadened the focus of Indigenous nutrition initiatives to include the «supply side» (improving food quality and access to healthy food in remote communities) as well as the «demand side» (promoting nutrition through behaviourCommunity dietary patterns were found to respond directly to improved stock management and food supply, 5,6 and multistrategy, community - directed nutrition programs in some remote communities resulted in marked and sustained improvements in anthropometrical, biochemical and haematological risk factors for chronic disease.7, 8 Knowledge gained from such studies has broadened the focus of Indigenous nutrition initiatives to include the «supply side» (improving food quality and access to healthy food in remote communities) as well as the «demand side» (promoting nutrition through behaviourcommunity - directed nutrition programs in some remote communities resulted in marked and sustained improvements in anthropometrical, biochemical and haematological risk factors for chronic disease.7, 8 Knowledge gained from such studies has broadened the focus of Indigenous nutrition initiatives to include the «supply side» (improving food quality and access to healthy food in remote communities) as well as the «demand side» (promoting nutrition through behaviour change).