Beautiful Longview Farm

The three farmers whom this paper has taken a look at are all interesting, they face their own problems, many of which are different, yet so very similar. The film "Farmland" is a phenomenal way to get the story of agriculture out and start eliminating the farming stereotype. "Farmland" is a wonderful film, with a ninety-two percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Whether they are facing the weather, working on their own, or working with bad crops for their animals, they will

Times have changed, and so has the family, the community and our environment. And these changes have impacted our lives and earth immeasurably. This is where the factor greed comes in to play, the need for more. This need for more called for extensive measures, measures like fertilizers, pesticides and equipment to work the ground and harvest the crops became necessity. Agriculture became a booming business that did not and still does not promote the well-being of the employee nor the individual let alone the family unit and community. Since 1950 an average farm size has doubled, but the number of laborers decreased substantially and the number of small local farmers has been cut in half. Farmers have been forced to become more efficient and there 's been a reliance on greater chemicals and technology, which has become very extensive and expensive. Sadly, what has been short term expansion has become a long-term threat (Trautmann, 2012). This greed driven increase has led to subtle damaging ramifications that most people are ignorant to. Their needs are being met as quality is being forsaken. Our environment is being squandered. Selfishness abounds.

Global warming, pollution, and dwindling fossil fuels will always be the conservational problems if nobody starts to buy local grown foods. Katherine Spriggs, author of the essay, “On Buying Local,” explains how having a large variety of foods at all times of the year is not worth the negative effects in the communities and their economies (Spriggs 92). As a community, many environmental challenges are being faced; Buying local will help bring advantages to not only the environment, but also the small towns and the

FRESH is a documentary by Ana Sofia Joanes, she explores the consequences of our current agricultural system and documents the work of farmers, activists, non-profit organizations and business that advocate for sustainable agricultural practices to address the problem. The film presents the farmers from Shenandoah Valley that practice traditional farming by raising and keeping their chickens, pigs, cattle and soil in traditional ways that attempt to imitate the way in which nature naturally works on nutrient and energy cycling. These practices challenge the industrial agricultural model that use a high input of resources to produce large amounts of a single crops/species in designated areas known as monocultures. Monoculture agricultures relies

For my civic engagement-learning project, I choose to volunteer at the Unity Common Ground Fair. I have been to state fairs but not a fair like this one. Honestly, I never even heard of this fair until Mark Kavanaugh e-mailed all KVCC students about it. The Common Ground Fair hosts the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) every year. Through Mark’s email, I contacted Anna Libby, Volunteer Coordinator, to find out what I needed to complete before I could volunteer. I did enjoy my time working at the fair, for I did interact with all versions of diversity.

The customers that buy from local sustainable farms know how their food is grown and harvested. At the Polyface farm Joel does not have walls on his slaughter house, this way people can come and see how their next meal is killed in a humane way. The people “don’t need USDA to ensure that the meat they’re buying has been humanely and cleanly processed,”(208) because they can watch with their own eyes how the meat is slaughtered. Industrial industries protest that selling produce locally can not get food to everyone around the US. Shipping produce across the country effects the foods taste. Also when customers go to the far, to pick out their own food they get the produce fresh and local. Local farmers on sustainable farms will make a bigger profit out of their produce because they do not have to put all their money into buying chemicals and fertilizers, this is good for the produce and farmers.

Through Finley's story, members had the opportunity to learn that urban farming is much deeper than a mere passion for gardening, it's about sustainability within our communities; creating a system that can uplift communities nationwide.

I recently did a Food for America project, which is a project on basically anything having to do with agriculture, presented to children in my town and too many others. For my project I chose to do Shribers Foods. If you don’t know, Shribers is a company that makes dairy products all over America. Shribers was even kind enough to donate some cheese to my group as samples for the children to whom I presented. That is an excellent example of how adults can help out. I’d like to connect FFA and Young Farmers Farm Wives of America, because if everyone grouped together we could make Food for America bigger and better each year, by having more things to see, especially things the FFA students don’t have or couldn’t acquire, but that could be brought in from the young farmers to do a presentation over, then more education is spread to the younger generation.

In the world of today, a new form of agriculture is starting to take place called "locavores." Locavores seek to change the way people eat by only growing and selling produce locally. However, many problems must be brought up to light before choosing this method as a benefit to the community.

In efforts to grow the Seedfolk City Farm, Barker initiated Operation Green Winter through the kick-starter website, Indiegogo. This was a community-focused urban agriculture project that helped raise funds to continue operating the greenhouses during the winter. It also enabled them to provide consistent year-round after-school employment for four of the young people that helped to get the project off the ground. This campaign was in addition to several community events held in efforts to raise money for the “green winter”. This was as a result of weather implications in Rochester, NY, which prevented them from growing fresh fruits and vegetables. The pilot aquaponic farming system would “winterize” the greenhouse by sustaining a year-round farming operation that enabled them to triple production capabilities with four new vertical grow beds. Not only did the money raised help physically make these changes possible, but it also provided the youth with more after school activities as a result of these expansions.

I thought this project was an interesting and creative way to integrate what we’ve learned in this quarter of the Honors course in regards to urban agriculture, as well as from the “marketing phase” of the course, skills learned through working as GenSTEM, plus engineering design and communications knowledge, such that we can see how we can directly impact a community with urban agriculture.

Local farm food is usually cheaper since your not paying for the packaging and the shipping across the country. Also the food is way fresher and healthier for consumption since it is freshly grown and has not been sitting on a shelf for days. In addition the farmers that live on the farm are used to the quiet area of the farm and using the farm as their income source. By converting the land it means the farmers and their families will lose their homes and will need to adapt to the noisy and dense areas and in addition they will need to find a new job. Also some farms have been in families for generations and will break their hearts to sell it. In conclusion the conversion of farmland into commercial areas will affect the economy and innocent

Gardening as one of the key features of post World War II revival for promoting a better and healthier UK, many related journalism, books and programmes appeared since 1960s. Blossoms Garden Centre is a family business which was founded in Glasgow in the mid 1960’s, providing a variety of products that includes garden plants, tools and chemicals. Blossoms has already established a good reputation in the market because of its high quality, product diversity and experienced employees (PMM, 2017). However, it currently experiences some problems which lead to a decrease of revenues and profits. The aim of this case study is provide recommendations to Blossoms generate more profits. Therefore, this case study analyses the current situation and explores

This Journal relates to the Trent Market Garden event with Adam McLaughlin. TMG is a student run enterprise on a farm that specifies in growing fresh and healthy foods which are locally supplied and distributed at Trent University and with the Peterborough community. Other than the TMG locally supplying and

Agriculture in the United States has changed dramatically over the centuries. Since the 1960’s large commercial farms have been leading in sales. As a direct result of their success we, as a society, have access to affordable food. However, the success of large farms has lead to many negative impacts such as increased usage of resources and decreased diversity in crop fields. This begs the question, what can be done to reduce the negative impacts of large farms. One solution growing in popularity is sustainable agriculture. The idea of sustainable agriculture is to create farms that need little to no outside help from irrigation, pesticides, or fertilizers. Sustainability can be achieved in many way through