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*[http://fallenfruit.org/ Fallen Fruit] is a [[Los Angeles]] based artists' collaboration composed of David Burns and Austin Young. The project was originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Since 2013, David and Austin have continued the collaborative work.
*[http://fallenfruit.org/ Fallen Fruit] is a [[Los Angeles]] based artists' collaboration composed of David Burns and Austin Young. The project was originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Since 2013, David and Austin have continued the collaborative work.
:Using photography and video as well as performance and installation art, Fallen Fruit's work focuses on urban space, neighborhood, located citizenship and community and their relationship to fruit. {{W|Fallen Fruit}}
:Using photography and video as well as performance and installation art, Fallen Fruit's work focuses on urban space, neighborhood, located citizenship and community and their relationship to fruit. {{W|Fallen Fruit}}
*[http://www.farmfromabox.com/ Farm from a Box]
*[http://www.thefoodcommons.org/ The Food Commons]
*[http://www.thefoodcommons.org/ The Food Commons]
*[http://www.fian.org/ FIAN International] {{W|Food First Information and Action Network}}
*[http://www.fian.org/ FIAN International] {{W|Food First Information and Action Network}}

Revision as of 10:30, 14 August 2016

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This article focuses on what communities can do to take action on food issues. Appropedia's Food article is a more general and signposting article.

What communities can do

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  • Abundance schemes to collect and share food using bicycle trailers
  • Allotment gardening and community allotments
  • City farms
  • Community Farm Land Trusts
  • Community gardening
  • Community greenhouse, eg see Food news#2013
  • Community harvest related events, eg community apple juicing
  • Community orchards
  • Community Supported Agriculture
  • Community-supported fishery
  • Farmers markets, set one up or support most local ones
  • Food cooperatives and bulk buy schemes
  • Fruit tree mapping
  • Gardening clubs, eg for specific types of gardening: organic, permaculture, etc.
  • Gardening match up service
  • Garden sharing or Yardsharing
  • Gleaning or Food rescue
  • Guerrilla gardening
  • Healthy eating initiatives
  • Local Foodshed Mapping
  • Local recipe collections
  • Organise food events
  • School-community kitchens
  • Seed libraries, seed saving, swapping and sharing
  • Sharing cooking skills, for example with younger people or younger parents
  • Slow food initiatives
  • Support wider initiatives such as Meat Free Mondays
  • Urban forest garden or Food Forest
  • Visit an organic farm

Campaigns

Compassion in World Farming, campaigning and lobbying animal welfare organisation. It campaigns against the live export of animals, certain methods of livestock slaughter, and all systems of factory farming. W

Feedback, environmental organisation campaigning to end food waste at every level of the food system

I know who grew it, campaign to fix broken food and farming

Think.Eat.Save

Why it matters

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Community food security

Community food security (CFS) is a relatively new concept that captures emerging ideas about the central place of food in communities. At times it refers to the measure of food access and availability at the community level, and at other times to a goal or framework for place-based food systems. It builds upon the more commonly understood concept of food security, which refers to food access and availability at an individual or household level (in health and social policy, for instance) and at a national or global level (e.g., in international development and aid work). W / See also Food Sovereignty

Local food

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Local food or the local food movement is a "collaborative effort to build more locally based, self-reliant food economies - one in which sustainable food production, processing, distribution, and consumption is integrated to enhance the economic, environmental and social health of a particular place." W

Seasonal food

Greater local connection with food and food growing enables communities to better appreciate food in season, thereby strengthening the local food economy.

Foodshed

A foodshed is the geographic region that produces the food for a particular population. The term is used to describe a region of food flows, from the area where it is produced, to the place where it is consumed, including: the land it grows on, the route it travels, the markets it passes through, and the tables it ends up on. "Foodshed" is described as a "socio-geographic space: human activity embedded in the natural integument of a particular place." A foodshed is analogous to a watershed in that foodsheds outline the flow of food feeding a particular population, whereas watersheds outline the flow of water draining to a particular location. Through drawing from the conceptual ideas of the watershed, foodsheds are perceived as hybrid social and natural constructs. W

Methods of Distributing Food within a Local Foodshed

The “farm-to-table” movement is focused on producing food locally within a foodshed, and delivering it to local consumers. Methods of Distributing Food within a Local Foodshed include Farmers’ markets, Roadside stands, Pick-your-own, Subscription farming and Community-supported agriculture. W

Local Foodshed Mapping

The internet can be used to locate foodshed maps of almost any area. Some maps are interactive, where sources in an area can be found for organic produce, microbreweries, farmers’ markets, orchards, cheese makers, or other specific categories within a 100-mile radius. A 100- mile radius is considered "local food" because it is large enough to reach beyond a big city, and small enough to feel truly local. W

Foodsheds and Sustainability

Buying local food within a foodshed can be seen as a means to combat the modern food system, and the effects it has on the environment. It has been described as “a banner under which people attempt to counteract trends of economic concentration, social disempowerment and environmental degradation in the food and agricultural landscape.” Choosing to buy local produce improves the environmental stewardship of producers by reducing the amount of energy used in the transport of foods, as well as greenhouse gas emissions. W

Resources

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  • BFR Package Deal, a DIY kit for starting a bike-powered food rescue project.
  • Creating a Community Polypod, Permaculture Magazine
  • farmlandgrab.org
  • Farm Hack / Farm Hack, an open source community for resilient agriculture
  • Food Systems Academy, an open education resource to transform our food systems
  • FoodTank.com, American non-profit organization focused on food sustainability and solutions to hunger, obesity and poverty. W
  • Growstuff, community of food gardeners. "We're building an open source platform to help you learn about growing food, track what you plant and harvest, and swap seeds and produce with other gardeners near you."
  • How to start a community garden
  • Meat Atlas, Facts and figures about the animals we eat
  • OpenFarm
  • Open Food Network
  • Open Source Seed Initiative, dedicated to maintaining fair and open access to plant genetic resources worldwide.
  • PerfectPotluck.com, free tool for coordinating meals for groups
  • Ripe Near Me, local food, home grown vegies, neighborhood fruit
  • WeFarm is a unique peer-to-peer knowledge sharing platform for smallholder farmers. WeFarm users can ask and answer farming questions and share farming tips, via SMS or online, enabling farmers in rural areas without internet access to share information without having to leave their farm. WeFarm is built around the principle that rural farming communities in developing countries have generations worth of knowledge to share, but lack the tools to do so. It is therefore one of the few SMS and farming informations service based around peer-to-peer, crowdsourcing of knowledge. Users ask a wide range of questions regarding farming techniques and share information around business ideas, or how to improve livelihoods. W
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Citizens data initiative

The number of chronically hungry people is expected to top 1 billion in 2009, up from 850 million in 2007. [1]

Why it’s green to be vegetarian: Farmed animals produce more greenhouse gas emissions (18%) than the world’s entire transport system (13.5%). [2]

Maps

falling fruit – Map the urban harvest!

Food insecurity and climate change metoffice.gov.uk

Mundraub Map

Quotes

"Eaters must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used." Wendell Berry [3]

Video

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More video:

GIY Together we Grow on youtube

Farmin' in the HOOD on youtube

What's wrong with our food system, Birke Baehr on youtube

Pam Warhurst from Incredible Edible Todmorden, 12/5/2011, on vimeo

Queen of The Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? (Trailer), 2011, on youtube

See also

Interwiki links

Wikipedia: Allotment (gardening), City farm, Community food security, Community gardening, Community-supported agriculture, Community-supported fishery, Foodshed, Food bank, Food cooperative, Food rescue, Garden sharing, Gleaning, Guerrilla gardening, Local food, Seed bombing, Seed library, Seed saving, Seed swap, Seedy Sunday, Slow Food includes Criticisms section, Terra Madre

Solar cooking wiki

External links

  • Fallen Fruit is a Los Angeles based artists' collaboration composed of David Burns and Austin Young. The project was originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Since 2013, David and Austin have continued the collaborative work.
Using photography and video as well as performance and installation art, Fallen Fruit's work focuses on urban space, neighborhood, located citizenship and community and their relationship to fruit. W



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