Category: mobile grow equipment

The percentage of the population with income below 130% of the federal poverty line—the income limit for SNAP eligibility—increased substantially during the period of the Great Recession, from 54 million in 2007 to 60 million in 2009, and 64 million in 2011. During this period, the rate of SNAP participation rose among eligible households from […]

Subsequently, under the 1938 Farm Bill, the federal government, and not a processor’s tax, would finance such subsidies, thus relieving corporations of any responsibility to maintain high commodity prices or profitable farms. Significantly, this funding structure was held in place during the shift in agricultural policy from the support of production to the support of […]

This model incorporates segregation costs in the processing and marketing sector under regulations. The regulations of interest are imposed at the point of purchase within the regulating jurisdiction, so the identity of compliance must be preserved at all stages along the supply chain. For traceability, segregation between the restricted products and the other products is […]

Urban planners have an opportunity to address food insecurity and other urban food system challenges including production, consumption, waste management and recycling by co-creating solutions with urban farmers through participatory processes and investing in community-led solutions. In our systematic review of the literature on whether urban agriculture improves urban food security, we found three key […]

While these may be useful in providing novice farmers with a starting point as to how to even begin putting together information regarding environmental, resource, and operational data, most of the farmers we spoke with end up restructuring their previously collected data to fit policy and/or certification requirements.The population of farm workers includes a large […]

As some of these foods are produced primarily outside of the regions of interest in this paper , they were cross referenced with the top ten most produced agricultural commodities in each of those regions to create a list of commodities to be considered in this paper.Table 3.1 shows which of the globally most produced food and […]

Contaminated or no-growth inoculated samples were not read and repeated. In addition, quality control strains were run weekly alongside the test samples. For anti-microbials in which the BOPO7F Vet AST Plate dilutions included the established breakpoint, “resistant” status was assigned if the isolate grew in or beyond the breakpoint dilution . For antimicrobials in which the […]

As a volunteer mentioned, patients are “prescribed by psychiatrists to come and garden.” Additionally, healthcare workers and veterans participating in the VA’s Compensated Work Therapy Program use the garden for growing food and taking breaks. Visitors are welcome to enjoy the garden at any time. Unlike most other UA sites that will be mentioned in […]

The City of Long Beach, located in Los Angeles County of Southern California, is home to a diverse population of about 451,000 people . Long Beach is 20 miles south of downtown Los Angeles and borders the west side of Orange County . Out of 88 cities in LA County, Long Beach is the second […]

Plaques, a zone of clearing on the bacterial lawn, were construed as evidence for the presence of phage. Overall, we found very little evidence for the presence of either lytic or lysogenic phages that attacked any of our bacterial isolates. We did find some evidence for lysogens: 20% of bacterial isolates showed evidence for the […]