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LET’S HAVE SOEMONE TELL US A LITTLE FOOD STORY….
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl4nYc77TAU
Sustainable agriculture is the key to our future. It respects the environment, gives food access to all, and does it at an affordable price so that MDC’s and LDC’s can
benefit.
Sustainable Agriculture• We will read together in your textbook on
page 352 about sustainable agriculture. Write down a few bullet points explaining the topic.
• You will be assigned 1 of the 3 sustainable/conventional distinctions to read about and share with the class
Sensitive Land Management
Limit Chemicals Integrated Crop and Livestock
Protects soil
Ridge Tillage: planting crops on a ridge (small hill)
Lower production costs, conserves, and reuses soil
Minimal soil disturbance
Seeds are GMO’ed to survive herbicides
Roundup Ready: Monsanto
Organic/sustainable farming do not use this!!!
Use natural herbicides
Livestock able to roam: free range
Eat crops, fertilizes the soil naturally.
3 complexities:Finding right # of livestock and crops
Animal welfare, treat them right
Weather conditions for animals
Sensitive Land Management• Ridge Tillage:
plant matter from previous harvest creates ridge for next crop
Limited Chemicals• Why is he so covered up if he is spraying that on
food people will eat?
http://web.mit.edu/demoscience/Monsanto/about.html
Integrated Crop and Livestock• Animals consume crops
grown on farm and have free range…fertilizing the soil. It is a circular system where all benefit.
Sustainable Agriculture TED Talks
• Organic Consumers Organization (interest group• https://www.organicconsumers.org/about-oca
• “What’s Wrong with our Food”• http://www.ted.com/talks/birke_baehr_what_s_wr
ong_with_our_food_system?language=en
• The Greening of the Ghetto• http://www.ted.com/talks/majora_carter_s_tale_of
_urban_renewal
A Vacant Lot In Wyoming Will Become One Of The World's First Vertical Farms
http://m.fastcompany.com/3042610/a-vacant-lot-in-wyoming-will-become-one-of-the-worlds-first-vertical-farms
AquacultureFarming of aquatic organisms: fish, shellfish, and even
plants. Can be marine (ocean) or freshwater.
Overfishing: Major Problem. One solution: catch share systems.
• http://www.edf.org/oceans/how-catch-shares-work-promising-solution
Answer the questions on the half-sheet as we watch!
• http://www.pbs.org/america-revealed/episode/1/
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