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BUILDING A REGIONAL, SUSTAINABLE & EQUITABLE
FOOD SYSTEM
Susie Sutphin [email protected] www.tahoefoodhub.org
Tahoe Silicon Mountain
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With regenerative farming, we're building in the soil mychorrhiza fungi. It sits down there in the soil and holds carbon for a long, long time. When you pour fertilizer down there, you kill the fungi and it volatizes into the atmosphere into carbon dioxide. Agriculture as we now practice it is one of the biggest contributors to global warming, but it could be one of the biggest mitigators.
I love food for what it provides my body, my community and my environment. If we all revered food in this way, everyone would have foodlust.
Inspirations
Farm to Market
How do we help small farms get to market?
Regional Food System
FOOD HUB
farms ranches dairies
specialty food
restaurants grocery stores
schools hospitals
drive demand And
raise awareness
Educate & Outreach
Farm to Market - source regionally -
Sierra Agroecology Center - grow locally -
Food Security
“where life thrives”
REPORTS & STUDIES
• The 25% Shift Report (Michael Shuman)
• Food Hubs: Solving Local (Wallace Center)
• Moving Food Along the Value Chain: Innovations in Regional Food Distribution (USDA)
• Organic Farming for Health and Prosperty (OFRF)
• Why Healthy Food Matters (PolicyLink/The Food Trust)
• The Role of Food Hubs in Local Food Marketing (USDA)
RESOURCES
