Extending the Local Food System

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• Extending the Local Food System

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• Year-Round Local Food Calendars
• Sustainable Food Choices
• Climate-Friendly Food Systems

Resources & References

• General Preservation: 
  • Janet Greene, Ruth Hertzberg, and Beatrice Vaughan, 2010, Putting Food By: Fifth Edition.  A Plume Book, Penguin Group, New York.
  • Carol Hupping, 1986, Stocking Up: The Third Edition of the Classic Preserving Guide.  Fireside Books, Simon & Schuster, New York.
  • Susan McClure (editor), 1995, Preserving Summer’s Bounty.  Rodale Press, Emmaus, Pennsylvania.
  • The Gardeners & Farmers of Terre Vivante, 1999, Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning.  Chelsea Green Publishing Company, White River Junction, Vermont.
  • National Center for Home Food Preservation
  • Storey Publishing

• Energy Use in Preservation:
  • David and Marcia H. Pimentel, 2008,  Food, Energy, and Society, Third Edition.  CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton, Florida.

• Cold Storage:
  • Mike and Nancy Bubel, 1991, Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits and Vegetables.  Storey Publishing, North Adams, Massachusetts.
  • Vegetable Harvest and Storage – University of Missouri Extension

• Growing Winter Greens: 
  • Eliot Coleman, 1999,  Four-Season Harvest.  Chelsea Green Publishing Company, White River Junction, Vermont.
  • 2009, The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year-Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses.  Chelsea Green Publishing Company, White River Junction, Vermont.
  • Niki Jabour, 2011,  The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener.  Storey Publishing, North Adams, Massachusetts.

• Transportation: 
  • Joy C. Rickman, Diane M. Barrett, and Christine M. Bruhn, 2007, “Nutritional comparison of fresh, frozen and canned fruits and vegetables.  Part 1.  Vitamins C and B and phenolic compounds.”  Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 87: 930-944.
  • Christopher I. Weber  and H. Scott Matthews, 2008, “Food-Miles and the Relative Climate Impacts of Food Choices in the United States.”  Environmental Science & Technology 42(10): 3508-3513.

• Climate:
  • Jennifer Edwards, Jim Kleinschmit, and Heather Schoonover, 2009, Identifying our Climate “Foodprint” Assessing and Reducing the Global Warming Impacts of Food and Agriculture in the U.S.  Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

• Food System Movements: 
  • Joy C. Rickman, Diane M. Barrett, and Christine M. Bruhn, 2007, “Nutritional comparison of fresh, frozen and canned fruits and vegetables.  Part 1.  Vitamins C and B and phenolic compounds.”  Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 87: 930-944.
  • Christopher I. Weber  and H. Scott Matthews, 2008, “Food-Miles and the Relative Climate Impacts of Food Choices in the United States.”  Environmental Science & Technology 42(10): 3508-3513.