Online Resources for Further Reading

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Beacon Food Forest. https://beaconfoodforest.org/

• Seattle community food forest that operates with volunteers

• Uses permaculture principles and design to trace the evolution of the project over time

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Chris Newman’s Medium Page. https://medium.com/@cnative100

• Indigenous farmer and founder of Sylvanaqua Farms

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Civil Eats. https://civileats.com/

• Online magazine on sustainable agriculture across America

• Articles, interviews and photo stories

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Falling Fruit

https://urbanforestry.indiana.edu/doc/teaching/2012-hopkins-thesis.pdf

• Online collaborative map for urban trees and other edible species 

• Includes fruit trees, herbs, dumpsters with time of year available and other user-input information

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From Garden Warriors to Good Seeds: Indigenizing the Local Food Movement. 

• https://gardenwarriorsgoodseeds.com/

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Harvard Food Waste Summit, 2018

• https://www.chlpi.org/food-law-and-policy/major-events/u-s-food-waste-summit-2018/

• http://blog.spoileralert.com/2018-food-waste-summit-reflections

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Hoover, Elizabeth. “Seed Sovereignty and Our Living Relatives in Native American Community Farming and Gardening.” 

• Lecture delivered at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. February 2020. https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/elizabeth-hoover-seed-sovereignty-and-our-living-relatives-in-native-american-community-farming-and-gardening/

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Marin Carbon Project

• https://www.marincarbonproject.org/

• Research collaborative with the goal of storing carbon in rangeland, agriculture and forestland

• Mission to farm carbon first, with agriculture and range animals a secondary priority

• Test plots located in Marin County, California

• Online handbooks and resources for developing metrics, mapping projects and evaluating carbon sequestration

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Massachusetts Department of Natural Resources Online Map

• https://massnrc.org/farmlocator/map.aspx

• Includes farms, CSAs, food banks, farm-to-table restaurants in a single web-based resource filtered by location

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Pastures for Profit: A Guide to Rotational Grazing

• https://fyi.extension.wisc.edu/wbic/files/2010/11/Pastures-to-profit.pdf

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Re-Fed

• https://www.refed.com/?sort=meals-recovered

• ReFED is a collaboration of over 50 business, nonprofit, foundation, and government leaders committed to reducing food waste in the United States. 

• ReFED seeks to unlock new philanthropic and investment capital, along with technology, business, and policy innovation, which is projected to catalyze tens of thousands of new jobs, recover billions of meals annually for the hungry, and reduce national water use and greenhouse gas emissions.

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Skeptical Science. “How much does animal agriculture and eating meat contribute to global warming.” 2020. 

https://skepticalscience.com/animal-agriculture-meat-global-warming.htm

• Questions the role of meat production contributing to greenhouse gas emissions

• Details production emissions throughout sectors in the United States industrial sector

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The Wallace Center. “Using Maps for Food Systems Access and Planning.” April 30, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwxDtEFkdZo

• Discussion of three different approaches to food systems mapping during COVID-19 and structural challenges to mapping food systems

• Of note: megaregional map and food flow map

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World Wildlife Fund. “Food.” 2020. 

• https://www.worldwildlife.org/initiatives/food

• By improving efficiency and productivity while reducing waste and shifting consumption patterns, we can produce enough food for everyone by 2050 on roughly the same amount of land we use now. Feeding all sustainably and protecting our natural resources.

• WWF works to secure a living planet that will sustain a more affluent population. From refining production and distribution to combating waste and environmental impacts, we want to improve how the world grows, transports and consumes this precious fuel.