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Sustainable Milton
Food - Eat Local
Food
Food travels an average of 1,500 to 2,000 miles to reach our plates -- but not if you buy it from one of the more than 1,200 small U.S. farms that offer fresh produce "subscriptions." Find one near you at foodroutes.org.
Learn more :
an Organic Trade Association
Organic Cotton, Wool and Personal Care Products from the Organic Consumers
"Local farmers sell their crops directly to schools." Read more.
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Milton's own Organic Farm: Brookwood Community Farm.
Read more in the Milton Times...
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Maine tomatoes in winter - red, ripe & ready!" Read more.
"First it was pet food in Canada and the US with Chinese ingredients killing thousands of cats and dogs. Then came reports of toothpaste in Panama with Chinese ingredients killing people.
"Now, we learn that just last month, food from China bound for the US included dried apples preserved with cancer causing chemicals, catfish brimming with banned antibiotics, mushrooms laced with illegal pesticides.
"Monitoring our own food supply has been tough enough -- think e-coli and spinach. Now it looks like a weakened FDA is in no way up to the global challenge.
"This hour On Point: big and still unanswered questions on the safety of the food we eat." 5/21/07
Food Safety
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Quickly make changes to reduce your impact on the environment
Milton
Farmers
Market:
Summer & Fall,
Thursdays 1-6
Lower Mills
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How To Compost from the Sierra Club
To eat organically on a budget, choose minimally processed food, buy in bulk to avoid marketing and packaging costs, cook as much as you can from scratch, shop locally and in season, and deploy meat as a seasoning rather than the centerpiece of a meal.
a budget, choose minimally processed food, buy in bulk to avoid marketing and packaging costs, cook as much as you can from scratch, shop locally and in season, and deploy meat as a seasoning rather than the centerpiece of a meal. 
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If organic foods made up just 10 % of everyone's diet, it would restore more than 6 billion pounds of carbon to our soil, and eliminate more than 2 million pounds of antibiotics used in livestock and more than 2 billion barrels of imported oil annually. Find out more at Mission Organic 2010.
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Community Supported Agriculture
What is a CSA? Many farms offer produce subscriptions, where buyers receive a weekly or monthly basket of produce, flowers, fruits, eggs, milk, coffee, or any sort of different farm products.
A CSA, (for Community Supported Agriculture) is a way for the food buying public to create a relationship with a farm and to receive a weekly basket of produce. By making a financial commitment to a farm, people become "members" of the CSA. Some CSA farmers ask that members pay for the season up-front; others accept weekly or monthly payments. Some CSAs also ask that members work a small number of hours on the farm during the growing season; others require no time commitment.
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Meat
Food and Water Watch has developed a new interactive map showing the location of animal factories by county in the United States. Animal factories are now found all over the country. These operations barely resemble traditional farms where healthy animals are allowed to roam on pasture. Instead, they keep thousands of animals closely confined in unsanitary conditions in order to maximize output. These systems pollute the surrounding environment and adversely affect human and animal health, leading to problems like antibiotic resistance. Visit map here.
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Carnivore or Herbivore?
What's it take to grow one cow from an 80 pound calf to its full size?
- 8 acres of land
- 12,000 pounds of forage
- 125 gallons of gasoline & other petroleum derivatives for fertilizer
- 2,500 pounds of corn
- 350 pounds of soybeans
- 1.2 million gallons of water
- 1.5 acres of farmland (to grow the crops for feed)
- plus various insecticides, herbicides, antibiotics & hormones. Learn more...
Learn about the US commercial cattle industry in Power Steer, by Michael Poulon, Sunday New York Times Magazine, March 31, 2002.
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Feeling fishy? Choose Wild Alaskan or Pacific salmon over the farmed kind. It’s better for you, and the ocean. Download a handy reference guide to potentially dangerous or overfished seafood here.
