local food a sustainable choice
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Local Food A Sustainable Choice. WHERE DOES YOUR FOOD COME FROM?. The Grocery Store? A Box? A Bag? Grown or raised by farmers from the soil, the land, and living animals . What’s Available?. Ag in Southeastern Mass. Including Bristol, Barnstable, Plymouth, and Norfolk Counties - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Local FoodA Sustainable Choice
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WHERE DOES YOUR FOOD COME FROM?
• The Grocery Store?• A Box?• A Bag?• Grown or raised by farmers from the soil, the
land, and living animals
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What’s Available?
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Ag in Southeastern Mass• Including Bristol, Barnstable, Plymouth, and
Norfolk Counties• 2,329 farms stewarding over 105,000 acres of
land.• Market value of ag products sold = $154 Million• Value of direct sales to consumers = $5 Million • Mass is #2 in Nation for Direct Sales – Farm to
Consumer
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When is food available locally?• Generally, the season runs from June through
October• Vegetannual• Harvest Calendar
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What is Sustainable Agriculture?
– Satisfy human food & fiber needs– Enhance environmental quality and the
natural resource base upon which the agricultural economy depends–Make the most efficient use of
nonrenewable resources and on-farm resources
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• Sustain the economic viability of farm operations
• Enhance the quality of life for farmers and society as a whole
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• 3BL – Triple Bottom Line – 3 Legs of the Sustainability Stool– PEOPLE: Social Equity &
Well Being– PLANET: Environmental
Health/Protection/ Conservation
– PROFIT: Economic Prosperity & Continuity
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Industrial Farming/Agribusiness vs. Smaller Family Owned Farms – Massachusetts Farms…• Extensive use of pesticides and fertilizers vs.
none, moderate, minimal – access to the grower to ask what is used on the crops, safer for farmers/labor
• External energy inputs – uses more vs. less energy usage, perhaps more likely to utilize EE/RE
• Cheap labor vs. Few workers, just family, getting paid more/a living wage
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• Confined and concentrated systems in terms of livestock vs. Free range, grass fed, few animals, little or no use of antibiotics – access to farmer to ask or see what conditions were kept in
• Bottom Line vs. Triple Bottom Line
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Why Eat Local?
–HEALTH– ENVIRONMENT– LOCAL ECONOMY
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HEALTH
• Locally grown produce is fresher, has longer to ripen
• Just plain tastes better & If it tastes better you will WANT to eat it!!!
• Spend $ on healthy food to stay healthy now – instead of $ on healthcare because you’re not healthy later
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• Stay in touch with the seasons & get to know your neighbors – a connected person is a happy person, is a healthy person!
• Access to the farm/farmers/growers – you can get connected to where your food comes from
• Buying Whole Foods (unprocessed) then you need to cook = family dinners! = healthy, happy, connected families!
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ENVIRONMENT
• Travels less• Maintain soil nutrients, crop varieties,
rotation, grazing• Open space – keep farmers farming• Maintain our foodshed
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ECONOMY• Money spent locally stays local and grows
exponentially– Local farmers, growers, producers put the money
back into the local economy– And so it grows…
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Where?– On-line Farm Guide – www.SEMAPonline.org – Farmers Markets– Farm Stands– CSA/Fs– Local & Independent Grocery Stores– Restaurants & Bakeries– Schools…working on it…– Caterers & Private Chefs – Your Own Backyard! GROW YOUR OWN!
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How?– 10% Challenge– Localize Your Favorite Recipes!– Cook with the Harvest Calendar– Farm tours– Family Dinners -
http://casafamilyday.org/familyday/ - A DAY TO EAT DINNER WITH YOUR CHILDREN – Monday, September 26, 2011
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Pasta Example
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Local is a State of Mind
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Local Food is a Sustainable Choice
Bridget Alexander Ferreira, Esq.Executive DirectorSoutheastern Massachusetts Agricultural
Partnership, [email protected]