#sustainable food

[solarpunkbusiness]

A giant step towards the future of sustainable food has been taken in Campinas, São Paulo, with the inauguration of the “Tropical Food Innovation Laboratory”. This center, unprecedented in Latin America, stands as a vanguard in the development and research of alternative foods. In a world where food demand is growing and diversifying, products such as cultured meat, plant-based milks, insect proteins, and chicken-free meat are being considered as viable and necessary solutions.

The laboratory, built on a 1,300 m² area at the Food Technology Institute of Campinas (ITAL), represents a unique collaboration between five leading companies in the sector. The aim of this project is to create an ‘innovation ecosystem’ that focuses on the development of sustainable food and beverages, with special attention to Brazilian biodiversity.

[u-mspcoll]

Food Literacy for All Showcase

"Do you know why the US Food Administration was created? Nope, it's not for public health reasons! Rather, it was created on August 17, 1917 by executive order primarily to provide food for the Allies in Europe during World War I. The US launched a rigorous campaign, greatly humanitarian in nature, onboarding roughly half the families in the nation to take on food pledges with weekly meatless, sweetless, porkless, and wheatless days to ship those foods to soldiers and starving civilians in Europe. This campaign demonstrates how the lack of overindulgence in food sympolizes patrioatism in the US during WWI."

Spotlight on food history posters prepared by students enrolled in the Food Literacy for All (Winter 2024), a community-academic partnership course hosted by the University of Michigan Sustainable Food Systems Initiative. Read more!

[confessionsofarefashionista]

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[mushroomwillow]

I want to like, grow my own food. But I have a very small living space, and nowhere outside to put anything.

We also don’t really eat veggies, which is an issue yeah. They just go bad too quick, and here they’re expensive. I’m very often way too tired to cook a big meal. It takes a lot of spoons to prep food for future use.

We do eat a lot of potatoes, my daughter loves berries, carrots are pretty easy to add to meals, and I like peppers, onions, and tomatoes in a lot of food.

But idk 1. How to even grow them inside at all, 2. If I’d be able to grow them year round inside and 3. If I could even grow enough for it to be worth it.

Then ya know, I don’t want anything to go bad and go to waist. But anything healthy is expensive so we rarely eat anything that’s not processed and shelf stable. And there’s no way for us to keep ya know, chickens to have eggs. Idk how I’d make room for food plants with barely any space. I do keep other plants that are very hardy and easy to take care of. I use grow lights for them when they need it. But those do take up space that technically should be used for something else to get rid of the clutter.

Idk just thoughts

[balkanradfem]

Garden plan vs the Real Garden

This is the garden plan I drew up in February, by now, a lot of it is growing decently, so let’s look at the difference between the plan and reality.

The first row was supposed to be green beans and zuchinni, and it tuned out green beans needed all the space! But they got some nice cosmos flowers by the side. The second row of squash+potatoes+broccoli+dill turned out almost exactly as planned.

The row of tomatoes is doing great, the kale that was in there went to seed so it was removed. There’s some extra onions on the side because I had more onion bulbs than expected. Strawberry+onion row got an extra brassica, and a volunteer sunflower! I allowed it to grow, I don’t think it will damage the strawberries as they’ll be long done when it flowers.

Onions+Garlic+Tomatoes row went exactly according to plan, it also got some extra basil because I forgot I was gonna put basil elsewhere. Beans are also doing great in their row, only there was one spot where I ended up planting a tomato because I had an extra tomato and nobody could stop me.

Peppers are going according to plan! Only I didn’t get en egglplant to grow this year, but I will not suffer for it (i get eggplants as gifts from friends).

I’m showing this because it’s such a powerful thing, to draw a little image and then, with your own knowledge and skills, shape a location to look as you planned it to, to produce what you intended to. It’s like thinking something up and making it real! With nothing but a bit of land and a box of seeds. What I planted here in seeds could fit one single palm, but it will produce enough food to keep me going thru the winter.

(The squash are not in this post because they’re very tiny right now, I’ll post them when they’ve overtaken their space)

[shreygoyal]

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[genteyhogaressostenibles]

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[tikimermaid]

Environmental concerns are at the forefront, and adopting eco-friendly practices in all aspects of life, including food consumption, has become imperative. Yacht rental in Marina Del Rey, California, and boat parties offer unique opportunities to indulge in sustainable eating practices while enjoying the beauty of the open waters. As more people become conscious of their environmental footprint, the demand for eco-friendly dining options aboard yachts and boats is on the rise.

[gurjantrocksss]

Save world

Four Seasons Hotel Toronto

ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS

Electric vehicle (EV) charging stations available for guest use

ENERGY, CARBON AND WATER REDUCTION

Energy-saving building systems, including a smart building platform used to drive continuous building performance optimization and significant energy-use and emissions reductions

WASTE REDUCTION

Recycling program in place

SUSTAINABLE FOOD AND BEVERAGE

Local, sustainable and seasonal menu items available

COMMUNITYHIDE

Local Canadian artists and artisans featured throughout the Hotel, including renowned sculptors, painters, designers and musicians

[confessionsofarefashionista]

Let's open 3 more awesome surprise bags from Too Good To Go 🥛🥗🥩

[processed-food-industry]

How Could Circular Economy Principles Revolutionize Food Processing?

Today, customers and stakeholders demand that food companies operate more sustainably. To meet this demand, adopting circular economy principles is crucial. However, there's no one-size-fits-all approach. Here are some areas to pursue in the food processing industry...READ MORE

[balkanradfem]

So I've been pretty bad at growing peppers, from the start I made rookie mistakes like 'planting them too close around tomatoes', 'planting them in the shade of tomatoes' and 'planting them too far away from each other', but as years went by, I got progressively worse.

I didn't know what was the problem, my peppers would be small, unsightly, with small leaves, and they would make only a few small peppers, and even that would grow late into the fall. My tomatoes, in comparison, were growing into monsters and would make unlimited tomatoes (or so it felt). I tried to problem-solve this by typing 'how to grow peppers' into youtube, but all I got was a video from a male saying 'don't water them too much'. Hm. I rarely watered anything in my garden anyway.

The Roots and Refuge queen said she had great success with transplanting her peppers out later in the season, when the nights were no longer cold; she noticed that peppers hated cold nights, and would get stunted if it was even a bit cold outside when they're out. This is it, I thought. I was going to transplant my peppers late, and they would grow big and beautiful like hers.

Mind you, the other gardeners were out there planting their peppers early, planting them from tiny transplants, and they still grew huge and produced many, many peppers. I just disregarded all of that because my favourite youtube mentor said her stuff and I was trusting her above my senses of sight and logic. So, I planted my peppers late, sure in my success.

It was the worst year for the peppers yet. They wouldn't grow at all. I had no peppers, for the entire season, and in the end, the frost came before any could ripen. I want to say I was saddened, but it was the most valuable year of learning for me. I'm after knowledge first. Then after peppers second.

That was the year of the drought, and even thought most of my plants made it thru, the peppers did exceptionally poor, they could not handle the heat or the lack of water, and something finally clicked in my head. The plant lady had mentioned before that 'peppers need to be watered' and would only plant them in places where she could water them regularly. I, of course, assumed my peppers wouldn't need that much water, because I had mulched them, and expected them to just be cool about it. But, seeing the effect of the drought finally solidified it in my head: Peppers need water. At all times. They need to be watered even if they're mulched, even if it's not that hot, even if they're not close to drying out.

So, this year, I finally made a plan of excessively watering the peppers, even if it wasn't too hot, even if they're mulched, I would provide them with all and any water they could possibly want for, I would do it if it was the last thing I ever tried.

And? Yeah they needed water. It's 11th of June, and my peppers have already produced a first pepper. I have not in my entire career of gardening harvested a pepper so early. I got teary-eyed seeing it grow. Few pepper plants have already grown bigger than their max height last year.

Some of them have surpassed the height and size of the other gardener's peppers and I'm secretly very smug about it (I have literally no ground to feel smug since I'm the disaster pepper gardener). But anyway! I'm excited to see how big they get, and here's my first pepper! I decided to take it off to get the plant to grow bigger before she produces more fruit.

[shreygoyal]

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We can’t stabilize the climate below 2°C of warming without stopping deforestation. We can’t stop deforestation without big changes to the ways we produce and consume food.

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[pfionline]

Nestlé Institute of Agricultural Sciences inaugurates

The new institute will be a center of excellence for research and education in agriculture and nutrition.

Nestlé has officially opened the Nestlé Institute of Agricultural Sciences to support sustainable food systems development by delivering science-based solutions in agriculture. As part of Nestlé's global R&D network, the institute collaborates closely with external partners, including farmers, universities, research organizations, startups and industry partners, to assess and develop science-based solutions. READ MORE...

[yummraj]

The nuances of Bengali food

By Guest blogger – Kamalika Basu, Chief Culinary artist at camelia.artisanal Instagram – camelia.artisanal Facebook – camelia.artisanal Camellia.artisanal is a small home based food company that delivers home-made norom pak sondesh & few other Bengali sweets to all over Delhi NCR & also organizes old fashioned sit down Bengali Sunday lunches at gurugram 2-3 times a month. The Overview In a…