"Farm-to-table is a social movement which promotes serving local food at restaurants and school cafeterias, preferably through direct acquisition from the producer."
The process of growing, harvesting, and transporting food from the farm to the consumer, and the ethical issues involved.
Sustainable Agriculture: A farming method that focuses on meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Local Food Systems: The production, distribution, and consumption of food that is produced within a specific geographic region.
Organic Farming: A method of farming that relies on natural processes and avoids the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.
Food Security: Having access to enough nutritious food to maintain an active and healthy life.
Food Justice: The idea that all people deserve fair access to quality food regardless of race, income, or geographic location.
Agricultural Biodiversity: The variety of plant and animal species used in agriculture to maintain healthy ecosystems and increase resilience in the face of environmental challenges.
Small-Scale Farming: A farming model that focuses on producing food for local communities and prioritizes environmental sustainability and social responsibility.
Food Waste Reduction: Efforts to reduce the amount of food waste generated during production, distribution, and consumption.
Animal Welfare: The ethical treatment of animals raised for food, including access to clean water, proper nutrition, and adequate living conditions.
Climate Change and Agriculture: The impact of climate change on agriculture and the role of sustainable farming practices in mitigating its effects.
Fair Trade: A movement that seeks to ensure fair compensation and healthy working conditions for farmers and workers in the food industry.
Agricultural Policy: Laws and regulations that govern the production and distribution of food, and the role of government in promoting sustainable and ethical farming practices.
Food Labels and Certifications: Labels and certifications that indicate that food has been produced using sustainable and ethical farming practices.
Urban Agriculture: The practice of growing food in cities and suburbs, often using small-scale techniques such as container gardening or vertical farming.
GMOs: Genetically modified organisms and the ethical and environmental considerations related to their use in food production.
Organic Farming: It refers to a specific form of agriculture that eschews the use of synthetic pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers in favor of organic alternatives.
Sustainable Farming: In this practice, farmers produce food in a way that is ecologically responsible and economically viable, thus preserving the soil, water, and biodiversity for future generations.
Ethical Sourcing: It concerns the sourcing of food products from farmers and producers who follow best ethical practices, including fair labor standards, animal welfare, and environmental stewardship.
Local Food: It advocates for the production and consumption of food that is grown and sold within a specific region or community, thus reducing the environmental impact of transporting food over long distances.
Regenerative Farming: In this approach, farmers seek to improve the health of the soil, increase biodiversity, promote crop rotation, and reduce the use of chemicals, thus reversing the damage caused by industrial farming practices.
Slow Food: It is a grassroots movement that aims to promote traditional food cultures and cooking techniques, highlighting the importance of local ingredients, and sustainable farming practices.
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA): It is a model of farming that directly connects consumers with local farmers, where individuals purchase shares in a farm's harvest in exchange for a regular supply of fresh, seasonal produce.
Farm-to-School: It connects schools with local farmers or regional food producers to incorporate fresh, healthy, and local food into school meals.
Veganic Farming: It is a type of farming that involves the exclusion of all forms of animal exploitation in the cultivation process, without the use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, or herbicides.
Biodynamic Farming: It is a holistic farming approach that emphasizes farming in harmony with the rhythms of nature, including various phases of the moon and other celestial events. Biodynamic farmers also focus on soil health, animal welfare, and biodiversity.
"The producer might be a winery, brewery, ranch, fishery, or other type of food producer which is not strictly a 'farm'."
"This might be accomplished by a direct sales relationship, a community-supported agriculture arrangement, a farmer's market, a local distributor, or by the restaurant or school raising its own food."
"Farm-to-table often incorporates a form of food traceability where the origin of the food is identified to consumers."
"Often restaurants cannot source all the food they need for dishes locally, so only some dishes or only some ingredients are labeled as local."
"The farm-to-table movement has arisen more or less concurrently with changes in attitudes about food safety, food freshness, food seasonality, and small-farm economics."
"Advocates and practitioners of the farm-to-table model frequently cite the scarcity of fresh, local ingredients; the poor flavor of ingredients shipped from afar; the poor nutritional integrity of shipped ingredients; the disappearance of small family farms; the disappearance of heirloom and open-pollinated fruits and vegetables; and the dangers of a highly centralized food growing and distribution system as motivators."
"The poor flavor of ingredients shipped from afar; the poor nutritional integrity of shipped ingredients."
"The disappearance of small family farms."
"The dangers of a highly centralized food growing and distribution system."
"[...] and in some cases farm-to-school."
"Farm-to-table often incorporates a form of food traceability (celebrated as 'knowing where your food comes from') where the origin of the food is identified to consumers."
"Direct sales relationship, community-supported agriculture arrangement, farmer's market, local distributor, or the restaurant or school raising its own food."
"The producer might be a winery, brewery, ranch, fishery, or other type of food producer which is not strictly a 'farm'."
"The scarcity of fresh, local ingredients; the poor flavor of ingredients shipped from afar; the poor nutritional integrity of shipped ingredients; the disappearance of small family farms; the disappearance of heirloom and open-pollinated fruits and vegetables; and the dangers of a highly centralized food growing and distribution system."
"The farm-to-table movement has arisen more or less concurrently with changes in attitudes about [...] food seasonality."
"The primary goal of the farm-to-table movement is to promote serving local food."
"Restaurants cannot source all the food they need for dishes locally, so only some dishes or only some ingredients are labeled as local."
"A community-supported agriculture arrangement, a farmer's market, a local distributor, or by the restaurant or school raising its own food."
"The farm-to-table movement has arisen more or less concurrently with changes in attitudes about food safety."