Production & Processing
Inside of this structure, farmers are able to grow tomatoes, herbs and other vegetables for longer than a normal growing season.
What is a Hoop House?
This farm member program is one of the most effective ways to get urban residents connected to fresh farm products, and to give farmers a reliable market.
What is Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)?
When a neighborhood does not have a designated grocery store, or place to buy ‘healthy food’ it is often referred to as this
What is a Food Desert?
This person doesn’t eat any animal products. No dairy, meat, seafood, eggs, honey or gelatin!
What is a Vegan?
This is when food is spoiled, expired or otherwise removed from the food supply chain, usually caused by economic behavior, poor stock management or neglect.
What is Food Waste?
Because of an excess of this crop in the food supply (due to government subsidies to farmers) this sweetener is ubiquitous in American food products
What is Corn Syrup?
This process brings products to market in a way that benefits the producer or maker rather than a ‘middleman’.
What is Fair Trade?
The experience of not knowing where your next meal will come from, or that you will be able to afford food to feed yourself or your family.
What is Food Insecurity?
This person “only” eats locally-sourced food.
What is a Locavore?
This practice is to safely retrieves edible food that would otherwise go to waste, and redistributes it to those in need.
What is Food Rescue?
To make white flour, these two parts of the whole grain are removed
What is Bran and Germ
Farmers, producers and food makers can clean,store and prepare their products here, and they’ll aggregate and sell those products to institutional buyers.
What is a Food Hub?
This is when people have right of to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems.
What is Food Sovereignty?
This is the process of providing or obtaining the food necessary for health and growth.
What is Nutrition?
To avoid depletion of natural resources in order to maintain a regenerative ecological balance.
What is Sustainable?
When a farmer does not use chemical pesticides or herbicides, they are allowed to give their products this designation
What is Organic?
This process is how food from a farm ends up on our tables. The processes include production, processing, distribution, consumption and disposal (waste).
What is a Food System or Food Supply Chain?
This relentless social construct devalues human beings and assumes that certain people are unworthy of having access to nutritious food
What is Food Apartheid?
This describes the multitude of efforts to address and hunger.
What is Food Relief?
This is a result of the excess of production or supply over demand.
What is a Surplus?
A region where specific foods are grown in relation to a specific community
What is a Foodshed?
This process includes all food, other than restaurant food, that is purchased by consumers and consumed off-premise.
What is Food Retail?
This non-profit, charitable organization distributes donated food to a wide variety of agencies within a designated service area that in turn feed people.
What is a Food Bank?
This is the practice of serving locally grown and/or produced food at restaurants and school cafeterias, preferably through direct acquisition from the producer.
What is Farm to Table?
This organic matter has been decomposed in a process that recycles various organic materials otherwise regarded as waste products and produces a soil conditioner that is rich in nutrients.
What is Compost?