Title: Reading
Course: WVA 101 Local Food and Cuisine > Section: WVA 101 Local Food and Cuisine

Reading

Readings

Ingredients of the Food System

Food often travels a complex journey from its original source on farm fields, ranches, rivers, and oceans to consumers’ plates. On this journey, food travels from producers (including farmers, ranchers and fishermen) to processors, transporters, and warehouse operators to retailers, consumers and lastly to waste handlers. This reading explores the ingredients of the food system and how those ingredients relate to everyday life.

Click here to view and read the article Ingredients of the Food System: Background Reading.

Svalbard Global Seed Vault and Seed Savers Exchange Readings

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault and Seed Savers Exchange work to preserve the wide variety of heirloom plant seeds to ensure a genetically diverse food supply and protect seed diversity from extinction. Heirloom varieties are grown for their flavor rather than shipping ability, are likely to be more nutritious, are economically sustainable because you can save seeds from year to year, and are a part of the stories and culture of our history. Please read the history and frequently asked questions of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault website. Also read the mission and about three types of heirloom vegetables on the Seed Savers Exchange website.

Click here to view and read the Svalbard Global Seed Vault website.
Click here to view and read the Svalbard Global Seed Vault website Frequently Asked Questions section.
Click here to view and read the Seed Savers Exchange website.