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LET’S HAVE SOEMONE TELL US A LITTLE FOOD STORY….

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl4nYc77TAU

Write captions for these pictures…use nouns and adjectives to describe what you see

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Sustainable agriculture is the key to our future. It respects the environment, gives food access to all, and does it at an affordable price so that MDC’s and LDC’s can

benefit.

Sustainable Agriculture• We will read together in your textbook on

page 352 about sustainable agriculture. Write down a few bullet points explaining the topic.

• You will be assigned 1 of the 3 sustainable/conventional distinctions to read about and share with the class

Sensitive Land Management

Limit Chemicals Integrated Crop and Livestock

Protects soil

Ridge Tillage: planting crops on a ridge (small hill)

Lower production costs, conserves, and reuses soil

Minimal soil disturbance

Seeds are GMO’ed to survive herbicides

Roundup Ready: Monsanto

Organic/sustainable farming do not use this!!!

Use natural herbicides

Livestock able to roam: free range

Eat crops, fertilizes the soil naturally.

3 complexities:Finding right # of livestock and crops

Animal welfare, treat them right

Weather conditions for animals

Sensitive Land Management• Ridge Tillage:

plant matter from previous harvest creates ridge for next crop

Limited Chemicals• Why is he so covered up if he is spraying that on

food people will eat?

http://web.mit.edu/demoscience/Monsanto/about.html

Integrated Crop and Livestock• Animals consume crops

grown on farm and have free range…fertilizing the soil. It is a circular system where all benefit.

Sustainable Agriculture TED Talks

• Organic Consumers Organization (interest group• https://www.organicconsumers.org/about-oca

• “What’s Wrong with our Food”• http://www.ted.com/talks/birke_baehr_what_s_wr

ong_with_our_food_system?language=en

• The Greening of the Ghetto• http://www.ted.com/talks/majora_carter_s_tale_of

_urban_renewal

Detroit Urban Farming

AquacultureFarming of aquatic organisms: fish, shellfish, and even

plants. Can be marine (ocean) or freshwater.

Overfishing: Major Problem. One solution: catch share systems.

• http://www.edf.org/oceans/how-catch-shares-work-promising-solution

Answer the questions on the half-sheet as we watch!

• http://www.pbs.org/america-revealed/episode/1/