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We've heard it all too often: "I live in the area and I've driven by your farm so many times... what do you do?" Check out our recent article in TAPinto North Hunterdon where dive into what we do on our farms in Hunterdon County, our purpose, and how we're tackling food insecurity in our communities. https://loom.ly/1lURz0s #FoodAccess #NutritionSecurity

From May 31 to July 31, four InterWest Moving & Storage locations—Bozeman, Salt Lake, Boise, and Idaho Falls—came together to gather an impressive 4,500 lbs of food! That’s over 3,750 meals—what a big impact from just four locations! Each of these locations faces areas of food insecurity, highlighting the broader challenge that 44 million Americans are currently grappling with. Efforts like this are vital in our fight to combat hunger nationwide. (InterWest Moving & Storage Idaho/Wyoming, InterWest Moving & Storage Salt Lake City, UT, InterWest Moving & Storage )

We don’t have a food shortage, we have a distribution shortage. Rather than passing our surplus food around the table, we're throwing it in the trash. Rewarding #fooddonation, as an alternative to landfilling, is the first line of defense against rampant #foodwaste. In Rhode Island, where #foodinsecurity is high, #taxincentives would be a useful tool to help divert more of that surplus food to families in need. 🍪🤖 https://lnkd.in/ek44VCYy Thanks to ReFED and the Rhode Island Food Policy Council.

Well done to Eat Wild and to Tops Day Nursery. Well researched and written piece in the Times here pointing out the cost to drivers and to agriculture of deer overpopulation in the UK. Only when the militant, anti hunting vegetarians and vegans realise the threat to UK agriculture and the implications of relying solely on imported foods will media such as the BBC and the other left wing media realise how important game hunting and personal choice is. As it is we have a multitude of famers having issues with poorly thought out laws and guidelines, DEFRA allows pollution of the waterways and their IT system is causing issues with subsidy payments to farmers. These same farmers have to cope with supermarkets failing to pay them a fair rate for their produce leaving the UK with millions of acres of grassland and farmland lost to carbon credit woodland and development since 2010 (see farming UK July 2022 or the Independent July 2020). Farmland enough to produce 250,000 tonnes of homegrown food per annum gone forever. Perhaps it is now time to support game shooting and famers alike before the UK becomes a concrete metropolis incapable of sustaining any meaningful home grown produce? Well BBC News The Labour Party will you support UK sustainably and sensible game hunting?

How do we tackle food insecurity? For Georgia, it’s through community and collaboration. Read how Metro-Atlanta communities, the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension, the USDA, and University of Georgia Archway Partnership are creating unique, co-creative ways to nourish Georgia’s Communities. https://lnkd.in/dRb6x-De

I'm not sure there's enough focus on agriculture (or planning, for that matter) in public discourse about biodiversity and climate, given that the State of Nature reports (etc.) highlight it as critically important - and again here, in relation to neonicotinoid insecticides. Personally, I feel quite poorly educated about solutions in agriculture, and the barriers from the perspectives of farmers. It feels a very disempowering subject for those of us not working in farming - a quick look at recommended actions from relevant charities shows a focus on donating, campaigning and gardening (which is not farming), with limited explanation of why the problem exists. In my experience in other areas, it's never as simple as "bad people don't care" (although I'm not denying self-interest can be in the mix). I'm not sure how effective public campaigns can be without a more nuanced understanding of why farmers are not shifting to alternative practices, and the support they need to do so - especially as we frequently hear how farmers are struggling. Maybe I should try harder with my downtime reading! But very sad to see that my observations earlier this year, about the lack of bees and butterflies in the South West this summer, are backed up by wider data.

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