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🌱🥚 Zero mile food 🥚🌱 I wanted to share something truly special with you today. Living in my 15-acre small holding in Somerset has allowed me to experience the incredible joy of growing my own food. 🌿🍅 One of the most magical moments I've had recently was watching 4 chicks hatch right in my kitchen. It's an experience that I believe every child should witness - pure magic! ✨ This Easter, we were lucky to hatch 4 adorable chicks.🐣 Now, these chicks have grown up to become the most spoiled chickens ever, and today they have just laid their first eggs! 🥚🐔 It's such a rewarding feeling to know that the food on my plate comes from my own garden. Living sustainably and supporting local agriculture has become a passion of mine. Not only does it provide me with fresh and nutritious food, but it also reduces my carbon footprint and supports the local community. 🌍 I encourage all of you to explore ways to incorporate locally sourced food into your lives. Whether it's growing your own vegetables, supporting farmers' markets, or joining a community-supported agriculture program, every small step counts. 🌱 Let's appreciate the beauty of nature and the satisfaction that comes from knowing exactly where our food comes from. Together, we can make a positive impact on our environment and our health. 🌿💚 #ZeroMileFood #SupportLocal #SustainableLiving #FarmToTable

🧑🏾🌾 Barcelo Gardens is farm, farmers market, teaching garden and active food sovereignty resource in Louisiana’s 9th Ward. Tune into this video understand why Ashley Webb and her husband opened Barcelo Gardens. Plus the benefits of eating from small to medium farms. And Webb's goals for Barcelo Gardens this year. Let us know in the comments if you pick up on any new vocab regarding food sovereignty! #farmtotable #foodsovereignty #FoodJustice #environmentaljustice #PeopleoverPlastic #blackhistorymonth2024 Alexis Young, MMC reports!

Tomorrow is #NationalHoneyBeeDay and we're absolutely buzzing about it! Why do honey bees deserve their own day? Simple answer - they are vital to the global food supply. 🐝 In the video below we explore the importance of honey bee pollination. Check out our other Celebrating Beekeeping videos to learn more about the craft of beekeeping, the vital role of honey bees, and the value of honey. https://lnkd.in/gHw7bZwV

So, you planted a garden, lucked out when your property included fruit trees, stumbled upon a produce sale you couldn’t pass up or joined a CSA. Good for you! Now what? What will you do with all that bounty? Your choices are: 1) quickly consume your harvest before it spoils, 2) give it away, or 3) preserve it to enjoy in the future. One of the best ways to preserve—the method of food preservation that is making a big comeback—is known as “home canning.” Canning is not tricky, but it is a procedure that should be followed precisely. 

An absolute ploy to keep people dependent on the deadly, global industrial food complex. Grow your own food if you can. And help Close the FDA-enabled Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) loophole through which food companies have flooded our food supply in the U.S. with over 10,000 additives—99 percent of which have NOT been studied, and some of which are deemed “unfit for human consumption” in other countries. Check comments for a link to current federal legislation to dismantle GRAS and sign up for my Close GRAS blog soon to debut! #ultraprocessedfoods #processedfood #foodadditives #foodaddiction #foodandbeverageindustry #foodindustry #hydroponicfarming #chemicalindustry #fdaregulations

Industry financed scientists, including WEF financed "analysts" too often do not implement smart thinking strategies for their evaluating paths. Instead they act more like "mental foot soldiers" who gladly internalized the interests of industries and financial networks they are dependend on. But executing „orders“ nudged by Think Tanks and NGOs to objectify the needs of their clients is by far not enough to solve the huge problems our technologicalised society creates.   As we see more and more mainstreamed narratives like "carbon footprint" can be misused as an entrypoint for camourflaging corporatist interests, even greenwashing then. When scientific theories become doctrines, that has to be coerced by states and governments and "tanked" into people´s minds daily as "narratives" by mainstream media our science system will loose it´s objectivity and reputation in the same way, as the media industry already has lost it. This would mean another dangerous blow to our society and to the stability of our civilisation.   Nouriel Roubinis global risk report at the contrary can be seen as much more relevant, intelligent approach to deal with the many complexities at hand than the reports of most WEF "leaders" and "analysts2. By the way Roubini - an experienced economist - defines the possible return of global financial crisis and a possible nuclear war as global macro risks, not global warming 🖖, read: https://lnkd.in/eAZzanjK More detailed in his book: Nouriel Roubini: „Megathreats“: https://lnkd.in/emgPKDKd

This is wrong on so many levels

From the article: “Do I talk about the labor abuses and the impact on the oceans?” he asked, shaking his head. “They’re 10 years old. Let them enjoy it, and break it to them later.” This is the mentality that perpetuates the systems of animal agriculture and environmental degradation… We need to start educating children now. It's much easier to instill the right habits and values when they are young, rather than forcing change later in life. Let's invest in our future by guiding the next generation today.

This falls into my continuing chapter of "My kids are smarter than me". Shout out to my daughter Lizzy Silber for her first author paper and her co-authors Natalie Call and Binney Girdler (I am sure their parents think they are smarter than them). Understanding food deserts in cities and the effects it has on food access help us all understand how to improve the human experience for ourselves and others. Read the article. By the way, if you need an Economics and Biology double major with GIS experience let her know. #changetheworld #GIS