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Pages About This Blog. Locally Grown Food – Looking at the Big Picture. 21st Century Grocery Shopping – Looking Beyond the Hype. April 11, 2008, 12:30 pm. Filed under: Wholistic Nutrition. As a nutrition teacher I find food labels to be a mixed blessing. They are informative, yet they can also be confusing and misleading. I flinched. I could simply smile and walk away, but being the teacher that I am, I couldn’t do it. Well, I said, yogurt is good for him, but not this kind. I guess we don’t need that!
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Pages About This Blog. Locally Grown Food – Looking at the Big Picture. Locally Grown Food – Looking at the Big Picture. As people throughout the United States become more concerned over global warming and other environmental issues, the next logical step is to make the connection to locally grown foods. Local food – what does that mean, exactly? How does buying locally grown food. Affect the global environment? Beginning with the milling of grains in the early part of the 20. There is also the economic ...
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Pages About This Blog. Locally Grown Food – Looking at the Big Picture. Balancing the Food-Economy Equation. February 22, 2008, 6:12 pm. Filed under: Urban Farming. Across the nation, as more businesses find ways to go green , more city and state governments are starting conversations regarding their food systems. Last week the state of Tennessee held its first Food Security Summit. 8211; a forum that encouraged the exchange of ideas on how to develop a locally based, sustainable food system for the state.
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Food Councils – Connecting Locally Grown Food to Local People | Kspitz's Weblog
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Pages About This Blog. Locally Grown Food – Looking at the Big Picture. Food Councils – Connecting Locally Grown Food to Local People. April 24, 2008, 11:53 am. Filed under: Urban Farming. During the Pollinating Our Future conference in Milwaukee, I attended a presentation on the development of food councils. The 90-minute presentation was a shortened version of a day-long workshop given by Mark Winne, author of. Closing the Food Gap. And Martin Bailkey, vice-chair of the Dane County Food Council. At thi...
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Pages About This Blog. Locally Grown Food – Looking at the Big Picture. In conjunction with the Pollinating Our Future Conference. In Milwaukee, I attended a full day workshop on SPIN Farming. SPIN stands for Small Plot Intensive. The main idea behind this method is that small scale farms can be as productive as larger farms and can also be highly profitable. The workshop was held in the lower pavilion of the Mitchell Park Conservatory. After a few more introductions and schedule clarifications, we proce...
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January | 2008 | Kspitz's Weblog
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Pages About This Blog. Locally Grown Food – Looking at the Big Picture. Responding to the Fatosphere. January 28, 2008, 10:11 pm. Eat less and exercise more does not work for the majority of people and is simply a myth. Hmm I had to pause and think about these claims for a moment; some of them I agree with and some I don’t. In my nutrition classes we spend a good deal of time discussing eating disorders and their root causes which really have little to do with food and more to do with body image and self...
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Food Insecurity, Food Deserts and Food Pockets | Kspitz's Weblog
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Pages About This Blog. Locally Grown Food – Looking at the Big Picture. Food Insecurity, Food Deserts and Food Pockets. April 24, 2008, 12:45 am. Filed under: Urban Farming. In the United States, food insecurity is a growing problem. In both rural areas and major cities. Food insecurity often runs parallel to another situation food deserts. In Vancouver, an organization called Food Roots. Is establishing pocket markets. Are vivid examples of the shortcomings of our industrial food system. Feed for commen...
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Pollinating Our Future – Part One | Kspitz's Weblog
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Pages About This Blog. Locally Grown Food – Looking at the Big Picture. Pollinating Our Future – Part One. April 13, 2008, 3:55 pm. Filed under: Urban Farming. The keynote speaker for the conference is. Abelman is the director of the. Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens. The main conference is being held in downtown Milwaukee, but several sessions including the Friday night opening, will be conducted in the. Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory. South Bend Potawatomi Park Greenhouse.
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The Timber | Kspitz's Weblog
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Pages About This Blog. Locally Grown Food – Looking at the Big Picture. April 13, 2008, 2:57 pm. Filed under: Personal Reflection. It was not much, really, just a narrow strip of woodland alongside the Wapsipinicon River in Northeast Iowa. It should be noted that the wash area was used mostly for washing our hands after playing in the pond, or for the doing the dishes. If a total bath was needed it usually meant a dip in the river! As the river slowly changed course over the years, our campground, which ...