managing agricultural resources
TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Managing Agricultural Resources](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022020700/61f2d89b41f6d63b773ce9ff/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Managing Agricultural Resources
Peter Ricardo
Beth Seeley
![Page 2: Managing Agricultural Resources](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022020700/61f2d89b41f6d63b773ce9ff/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
Thomas Love Peacock
Puente Hills Landfill, Los Angeles, CaliforniaCovering roughly 700 acres and towering almost 500 feet high, Los Angeles’ largest landfill, Puente Hills, takes in 12,000 tons of garbage a day and currently holds 3.7 million tons.(Photo: Wallofhair/Creative Commons)
![Page 3: Managing Agricultural Resources](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022020700/61f2d89b41f6d63b773ce9ff/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Produce donations: A valued resource
• Economic value
• Nutritional value
• Community / collaborative value
• Educational value
![Page 4: Managing Agricultural Resources](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022020700/61f2d89b41f6d63b773ce9ff/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
North American Food Waste Facts
• In the USA, organic waste is the second highest component of landfills, which are the largest source of methane emissions
• In the USA, 30-40% of the food supply is wasted, equaling more than 20 pounds of food per person per month
![Page 5: Managing Agricultural Resources](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022020700/61f2d89b41f6d63b773ce9ff/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Agricultural Donation Pathway
Farm Partners
Transportation
Food Bank of Central New York
Retail
Partner agency
GardenersFarm
partnersFriends and Neighbors
INPUTS OUTPUTS
INPUTS OUTPUTS
![Page 6: Managing Agricultural Resources](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022020700/61f2d89b41f6d63b773ce9ff/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
*Food Bank and #Partner Agency
Inputs
• *# Facility
• *# Staffing
• *# Equipment
• *# Fuel
• *# Packaging
• *# Volunteer management
• *# Storage
Outputs
• *# Distributions
• *# Reporting
• *# Education
• *# Recipes
• *# Advocacy
• *# Training
• *# Waste
![Page 7: Managing Agricultural Resources](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022020700/61f2d89b41f6d63b773ce9ff/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Together We Achieve
1,321,262 pounds of produce
in 2010
![Page 8: Managing Agricultural Resources](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022020700/61f2d89b41f6d63b773ce9ff/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Reasons for donation
• Surplus crop yield
• Timing: crop is too early, or too late. Supply conflicts with market
• Spec issues
• Grade issues
• Contract conditions
• Intentional
![Page 9: Managing Agricultural Resources](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022020700/61f2d89b41f6d63b773ce9ff/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Market Form
• Volunteer gleaning
• Machine harvest, bulk load
• Field boxes
• Boxed/bagged
![Page 10: Managing Agricultural Resources](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022020700/61f2d89b41f6d63b773ce9ff/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Transportation Food Bank of Central New York p/u at farm, distribute to network
Partner agency p/u at farm, distribute to client
Delivered (less typical, never expected) farm-to-agency or food bank
Independent carriers
![Page 11: Managing Agricultural Resources](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022020700/61f2d89b41f6d63b773ce9ff/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Storage and Transition
• Ambient or refrigerated
• Culling, sorting, boxing by volunteers
• Loss management
• Promotion, order, pick, load
![Page 12: Managing Agricultural Resources](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022020700/61f2d89b41f6d63b773ce9ff/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Distribution
• Regular deliveries
• Fresh Foods program
• RPP auxiliary deliveries
• Partner agency p/u
![Page 13: Managing Agricultural Resources](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022020700/61f2d89b41f6d63b773ce9ff/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Shared with service recipients
• Bagged, given loosely, self-serve
• Recipes, suggestions, videos, demonstrations
![Page 14: Managing Agricultural Resources](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022020700/61f2d89b41f6d63b773ce9ff/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Together We Achieve
Pounds of produce in 2015..
2,336,353
![Page 15: Managing Agricultural Resources](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022020700/61f2d89b41f6d63b773ce9ff/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Product that doesn’t make it
• Animal food
• Compost
• Reintroduced (plowed-under)
• Dumpster/landfill
![Page 16: Managing Agricultural Resources](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022020700/61f2d89b41f6d63b773ce9ff/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
![Page 17: Managing Agricultural Resources](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022020700/61f2d89b41f6d63b773ce9ff/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Making the most of resources
• If 1-2 cuts will leave you with 70% of the item, use it.
• Culling: whole affected fruit/veg taken out to preserve the remaining stable item
• Extend usable life via recipe preparation, preserving, and other methods (recipe ready, purees, oils, butters, etc.)
• Use it before you lose it
• Discuss
![Page 18: Managing Agricultural Resources](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022020700/61f2d89b41f6d63b773ce9ff/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Sharing Ideas for Sharing Garden
Bounty
Create a habit for people…drop off your garden excess (just prior to distribution), free to neighborhood day after dist.
Cart
Now…YOU share some ideas !!
![Page 19: Managing Agricultural Resources](https://reader030.vdocuments.site/reader030/viewer/2022020700/61f2d89b41f6d63b773ce9ff/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
Questions and discussion
• Ag experiences
• Ideas for “Growing Neighbors”