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Promoting Local Foods in Corvallis Alex Humphrey Charlie Nairn Michael Sheng

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Promoting Local Foods in Corvallis. Alex Humphrey Charlie Nairn Michael Sheng. Goal. To encourage the consumption of local foods in Corvallis. Why Shop Local?. It is environmentally friendly. It keeps tax dollars in our community. It creates culture. It creates jobs. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Promoting Local Foods in Corvallis

Promoting Local Foods in Corvallis

Alex HumphreyCharlie NairnMichael Sheng

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Goal•To encourage the consumption of local foods in Corvallis.

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Why Shop Local?•It is environmentally friendly.•It keeps tax dollars in our community.•It creates culture.•It creates jobs.•It makes Corvallis unique.

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The Benefits of Local Food•It’s fresh.•Many smaller local farms operate more

sustainably than large farms.•It encourages variety in our diet.•It is usually more nutritious due to reduced

amounts of transport and storage.

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1st Semester Accomplishments•Surveyed students to determine what

percentage shop local already and why those who don’t don’t.

•Created a brochure on the benefits of local food.

•Created a presentation on the benefits of local food.

•Contacted and joined the Food Action Team

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Survey Questions• How often do you shop at locally owned food markets (eg;. the Food Coop,

Farmer’s market etc.)? ▫ All the time – This is where I buy my food ▫ Once or twice a week ▫ Once or twice a month ▫ Once or twice a year ▫ I never shop at any of these places

• What factors influence you to shop at Winco Foods, Safeway, Fred Meyer, or any other of these large chain stores over local food markets? ▫ Because I believe the prices for produce are cheaper ▫ Because it is closer to where I live ▫ Other reason ▫ Never really thought about it

• If you believed that locally produced foods were more nutritious and better for the environment would that influence your choice of where to shop? ▫ Yes ▫ No

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Survey Results• Only 8.7% of people said they regularly shopped

at local food sources. 24.4% said that they shop at local food stores once or twice a week, 25.9% said once or twice a month, 22% said once or twice a year, and 19% said never

• 29.6% said that cost was the main reason they didn’t shop local. 46% said that shopping local was inconvenient. 15% said that they never thought about the issue.

• 57.8% of people said that knowing that local food is more nutritious and better for the environment is not enough to make them shop local.

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The Challenges of Buying Local•Buying local is sometimes inconvenient as

there are often fewer places to go.•Buying local is more difficult as many

stores won’t have everything you need.•One other major obstacle is cost. But

buying local food can be affordable.

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Inconvenience•Local food is not as readily available as

we would like. •Part of the work of the Food Action Team

has been to increase access to local food in restaurants.

•Eventually the Food Action Team hopes to have local food labeled and sold in chain stores.

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How to Buy Local on a Budget•Step 1: Buy in Season

▫The more easily something is grown in your area, the less distance it has to travel, and the cheaper it will be to buy local.

▫Buying in-season ensures not only that you will get the cheapest fresh produce year-round, but also that you will have variety in your diet.

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How to Buy Local on a Budget•Step 2: Expand Your Palate

▫Often you won’t find the foods you are used to eating in-season. You can continue to buy locally and cheaply by purchasing those foods that are in season.

▫Try new things, it will let you eat locally, add variety to your diet and expand your palate.

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How to Buy Local on a Budget•Step 3: Buy Lower on the Food Chain

▫All energy on earth originally comes from one source, the sun. It requires a lot more of the sun’s energy to produce a given number of calories of steak than it does to produce a given number of calories of grain because that cow has to be raised and fed.

▫By eating lower on the food chain you getting your energy in a more efficient way.

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How to Buy Local on a Budget•Step 4: Buy Whole Foods

▫This is an extension of the previous point. Processed food wastes energy in the same way. All the energy put into the foods to process them adds to their price.

•Step 5: Buy in Bulk•Step 6: Buy on Sale

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How to Buy Local on a Budget•Step 7: Take it One Step at a Time

▫This isn’t an all or nothing thing. You don’t have to buy all your food locally to make a difference. Do what you can, and as you learn to follow these steps, you will be able to do more.

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How we are Promoting Local Food•We are members of the Food Action

Team, a subgroup of the Corvallis Sustainability Coalition.

•The Team is working on the Sustainability Coalition’s goal to have a significant percentage of food consumed in Corvallis grown locally.

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How we are Promoting Local Food•The Food Action Team is using the local

six logo, which you may have seen at the coop, to label foods on restaurant menus.

•We are currently in the process of contacting restaurants to ask them to take part in this program.

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The Corvallis Local Six Connection

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2nd Semester Work•Worked with the Food Action Team

towards the launch of the Corvallis Local Six Connection.

•Created a guide to buying local on a budget.

•Presented a poster in earth fair.•Distributed our brochure at the earth fair

and the library in order to raise awareness.

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What Next…•You will be seeing these logos in many

Corvallis restaurants in the near future. •We hope that you will choose to support

those restaurants, and their decision to choose local food.

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Next Year•Hopefully students will continue to work

with the Food Action Team.•Working alongside the Food Action Team,

next years students could focus on farm-to-restaurant connections, and labeling local food in stores.

•We also need to continue to raise awareness of the importance and benefits of local foods.

•We created a powerpoint presentation that we never got to present in schools due to time constraints and scheduling conflicts. Hopefully, those continuing this project will give presentations to help raise awareness.