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Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
Description
"Manuel will learn about food from around the world as his classmates share their families' food traditions. In this charming story, readers will discover how food is alike and different across cultures"--
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The goal of this review is to bring together literature on Hispanic American food values and identify the barriers Hispanics face to living according to those values in the U.S. The research starts with a discussion of what food ethics is and why it is important to promote cultural values. The rapid review focuses on food values and barriers from the Hispanic perspective.
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Farmville Area Community Emergency Services (FACES) food pantry is a non-profit organization providing emergency and supplementary food to qualified residents of Prince Edward County and parts of Cumberland, Buckingham, Nottoway, Luneburg, and Charlotte Counties. Currently, FACES distributes bags of food to an average of 960 households representing 1,358 individuals on a weekly basis. FACES is also in the process of becoming a regional distribution...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The following document outlines the steps needed to build and develop a sustainable strategy for Chef Camp. This was accomplished by analyzing Chef Camp from its inception through a SWOT analysis, completing a competitive review of organizations, and utilizing Adam Werbach's three tools in creating a sustainable strategy: STaR Mapping, North Star goal, and the TEN Cycle. Identifying the North Star goal: creatively strategize for the development of...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In a world of ever rising energy costs it is becoming increasingly prudent that we begin to assess the role that energy plays in our food system. Transparency in our production systems, paired with additional research, will help us to map energy use and better understand the true cost of our current means of subsistence. Reliability will inherently increase with an increase in energy data. The Diet Dashboard attempts to increase visibility and accountability...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Food insecurity is more than hunger. It refers a host of physiological and mental symptoms arising out of the lack of physical, social, or economic access to adequate quantities of safe and nutritious food for a healthy life. Poverty and unemployment are the most common characteristics of a food insecure population. In the United States, there are many national supplemental programs and non-profit organizations dedicated to improving food insecurity....
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The global food system confuses, scares, or keeps consumers uninformed about the food they are bound to eat. The goals of sustainable farming are to develop a community, grow its food source, and increase the local and regional economy. In this report, sustainable food system organizations (SFSOs) are reviewed to see how they influence policy, report the facts, educate consumers, and produce food in a local and sustainable manner. Strengths, weaknesses,...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The globalized industrialization of the food system has threatened food security and jeopardized farm security at multiple scales. The current corporate food regime has perpetuated injustice specifically among people of color and women food system stakeholders. Community food security and values based value chains are two proven alternative proposes an integrated approach based on addressing the root causes of food and farm insecurity. This project...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The development of this project stems from a seemingly insignificant consideration, or in some cases, outright absence, of cultures influence within the broad conversation about efforts to shape food systems. Sustainable food systems are affected by psychology, sociology, and ethnography thus making this factor critical. Food systems are impacted, in both historical and modern terms, and from bio-cultural and cross-cultural perspectives these socio-cultural...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Poverty is more than the lack of money. To begin to understand poverty is to examine and become aware of the myriad factors and circumstances limiting an individual or family from having access to resources such as food, clothing, and shelter. In addition to the financial resources necessary to rise out of poverty, individuals must also have the necessary emotional resources that allow them to avoid self-destructive behavior during times of hardship....
12) Food cooperatives and membership diversity: an indicator of culture change and food system reform?
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The number of food cooperatives in the United States has ebbed and flowed since the beginning of the twentieth century based on economic, political and social forces. Currently, the number of food co-ops across the country is increasing. Along with the increase in food co-ops, it has also been suggested that diversity in food co-op memberships is on the rise. If so, the increasing popularity and widespread appeal of food co-ops may suggest that our...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This capstone is a brief study of how four successful but different food hub models began. It also considers basic data regarding food hubs, vulnerabilities of a transportation-based food system, and economic, ecological, and ethical barriers to their creation and success of food hubs. It continues with a brief analysis of Iowa and Linn Co. Iowa's current food systems. Finally, this analysis concludes with a recommendation of how Linn Co. can strategically...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Food Policy Councils can be an essential tool for developing sustainable, resilient, and local food systems through advocacy, food policy, and community engagement. Literature is abundant for the importance of starting food policy councils, but there is currently not enough research on how existing councils can continue to stay relevant. Over time, structural challenges can diminish motivation which can continue to stay relevant. Over time, structural...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Into the Woods is an experimental culinary project and research study that interweaves archetypal storytelling with culinary expression to illuminate the connections between memory, identity and community engagement. Participants in experimental groups were led on a three week journey that engaged multiple senses while encouraging reflection, insight and stronger community cohesiveness. Qualitative inquiry and methodology was applied throughout the...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The United States (U.S.) produces much of the food the world consumes. Therefore, accessing healthy, affordable foods in the U.S. should not have unreasonable barriers, nor be a challenge. The ability to have fresh, affordable food is a right that all people should have. That is generally not the case in a food desert community. This is an area of a city where fast food restaurants, convenience stores, and gas stations that sell food are more prevalent....
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
How's it Growing was born in early 2013 in collaboration with Children's Country Day School, a Twin Cities (MN) nature-based school for preschool-aged children. The project's goals aimed to establish a farm to preschool pilot program at the school and to integrate a sustainable agriculture curriculum and other food-related experiences into the culture of the school. The main focus of the project revolved around the development of a preschool-aged...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Becoming food literate and feeling comfortable with eating healthy foods are big steps toward reaching the goal of food security. A school farm program at Faith Baptist Christian Academy (FBCA) is the first step in connecting students with food and to support education in health, nutrition, agriculture, and local economy. Use of traditional, pallet and Hugelkulture raised beds, and ground rows and plots have created an outdoor education center that...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The re-localization of food systems is a movement gaining traction throughout the world, due in large part to the inherent lack of environmental sustainability and social equality found within the dominant, highly corporatized and globalized food system model. My position is that all food systems are most effectively considered as complex adaptive systems and that change is an emergent structure which can be guided toward a more localized, resilient,...