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Food Sustainability: Resources and Thoughts from Panelist David Granatstein
Submitted by saraneppl on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 10:14am
Have you joined our Facebook group to receive notices of CityClub events in your Facebook inbox? If you have, you received a message yesterday about our upcoming program, "Local? Sustainable? Equitable? Having Your Values and Eating Them Too!" In it, I mentioned the popularity of Michael Pollan's books as an indicator of public interest in this topic.
Turns out, I was right on the mark. David Granatstein, Sustainable Agriculture Specialist at the Washington State University Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, also recommends Pollan - specifically, In Defense of Food - as a resource for learning more about this topic.
"There is no simple answer to sustainability in our food system," Granatstein says in our pre-event questionnaire. "It took many years for the current system to evolve, and it will take time to evolve to another system that we hope will be more sustainable. Sustainability is a goal, one best judged by hindsight. We take actions today to improve sustainability based on the best information we have. But that doesn’t guarantee we will be right, and we must be willing to change our minds."
Granatstein provided for us an article he's written titled "Sustainable Horticulture in Food Production", published in Acta Horticulturae. You can find it at the bottom of this post, downloadable in PDF form!
Other books Granatstein recommends:
Try these online resources as well!
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Turns out, I was right on the mark. David Granatstein, Sustainable Agriculture Specialist at the Washington State University Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, also recommends Pollan - specifically, In Defense of Food - as a resource for learning more about this topic.
"There is no simple answer to sustainability in our food system," Granatstein says in our pre-event questionnaire. "It took many years for the current system to evolve, and it will take time to evolve to another system that we hope will be more sustainable. Sustainability is a goal, one best judged by hindsight. We take actions today to improve sustainability based on the best information we have. But that doesn’t guarantee we will be right, and we must be willing to change our minds."
Granatstein provided for us an article he's written titled "Sustainable Horticulture in Food Production", published in Acta Horticulturae. You can find it at the bottom of this post, downloadable in PDF form!
Other books Granatstein recommends:
Agrarian Dreams by Julie Guthman
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
The New American Farmer by USDA Sustainable Agriculture Network
Try these online resources as well!
Articles on Organic and Sustainale Fruit ProductionGranastein offers these as thoughts to chew on (and discuss!) before next Thursday's panel: Can we have a sustainable food system if the culture as a whole is an unsustainable model? Where do “limits” fit in to sustainability and how do they work in a growth oriented economy?
Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources: Organic Agriculture
Profile of Organic Crops in Washington State – 2008
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