Hellgate CSA Blog - Astoria, NY

That a typical strawberry, which holds 5 calories of nourishment, requires approximately 435 calories of fuel to be delivered from the field to your grocery store? That’s 3,300 miles from California to New York, not counting detours for processing and packaging.
Looking at “food miles” is one way of assessing the sustainability of a food item. [...]

From Just Food:
Did you ever wonder how your farmer has a supply of some vegetables all summer long? Or how they grow so much food on so little land? Farmers who practice small-scale sustainable agriculture use a method called succession planting to increase the amount of produce they can grow on their land.
There are four [...]