Exam 7

A regional food hub is a local facility in which locally grown food is stored and distributed.  For example, if I was a farmer at Travis Nelson Local Farms, I would grow my food, send it to my local regional food hub, and it was be stored and distributed for me there.  They are essential to sustainable agriculture and food distribution for many reasons.  First, because they are local.  Regional food hubs are local places that you can send your food to (if you are a farmer).  Yes, huge industrial facilities that do sort of the same thing do exist, but the fact that they are local makes a difference.  In class, we watched Food, Inc., which documented the American food industry and how they handle things.  Personally, after watching this, I am glad places like regional food hubs exist.  In the movie, it really did not look like things were being properly handled and taken care of, and I would not call their methods "sustainable" at all.  Things are different at these local regional food hubs.  

The closet place to JC to get organic poultry is Andy's Eggs, located at 2601 Harford Road, Fallston, MD 21047.  The closet place to JC to get organic beef is at the Mill of Bel Air, which sells Deer Creek Organic Beef.  The closet place to JC to get organic vegetables is at Andy's Eggs.  See above for address.

To the JC Cafeteria Staff:

In order to accommodate for rising health standards in our country and in our world, schools must change their cooking, preparation, serving, and eating methods.  Buying organic is one of the easiest ways to help our school be more healthy and more green.  Andy's Eggs and the MIll of Bel Air are great places to find organic foods.  They may be a little more expensive, but then again, you can't put a price on your students' health!  Just talking to the student body about buying and eating organic are just some of the ways you can encourage students to be more healthy and more conscious of the environment around them.  I am already starting to spread the word about organic foods by writing you this!

Thanks,

Travis Nelson

2601 Harford Road   Fallston, MD  21047