{"id":346,"date":"2014-10-21T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=346"},"modified":"2014-10-21T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T11:05:00","slug":"new-england-can-feed-itself-heres-how-new-england-new-economy-transitionnew-england-new-economy-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"New England Can Feed Itself. Here&#8217;s How. | New England New Economy TransitionNew England New Economy Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/netransition.org\/2014\/10\/16\/new-england-can-halfway-feed-heres\/\">New England Can Feed Itself. Here&#8217;s How. | New England New Economy TransitionNew England New Economy Transition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"outline-width: initial; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #6688ff; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/netransition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Food-Panel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-592 size-full\" style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f6f6f6; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; opacity: 0.9; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px auto 0px auto; border: 1px solid #cccccc;\" src=\"http:\/\/netransition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Food-Panel.jpg\" alt=\"Speakers Brian Donahue, Eva Aguedelo, Karen Spiller, and Brett Tolly\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><em style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">By Sarah Byrnes &amp; Orion Kriegman<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">On Wednesday October 8, one hundred people gathered at a church in Jamaica Plain, MA, to consider: Can New England Feed Itself?<\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The answer is yes, New England can feed itself \u2013 halfway.\u00a0<span style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><a style=\"outline-width: initial; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #004488; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/foodsolutionsne.org\/new-england-food-vision\" target=\"_blank\">Food Solutions New England\u2019s Food Vision<\/a><\/span>, a rigorous analysis of New England\u2019s history and natural resources, claims that our region could produce at least half of our own food if we farm three times as much land (up from 5% to 15% of our landmass) and shift from a \u201cBusiness as Usual\u201d diet to the \u201cOmnivore\u2019s Delight.\u201d In a different scenario, called \u201cRegional Reliance,\u201d the Vision finds we could produce 70% of our food within our six states. Either of these scenarios represents a vast improvement over the current system, where only 10% of food is produced regionally.*<\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">But before we get any further, it\u2019s important to remind ourselves why we want regional food. \u201cIf we want a local or regional food system,\u201d says Brian Donahue, the evening\u2019s main speaker, \u201cit\u2019s important to ask: Why? What values are we truly serving?\u201d<\/p>\n<div>&#8230;click on the link above to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New England Can Feed Itself. Here&#8217;s How. | New England New Economy TransitionNew England New Economy Transition. By Sarah Byrnes &amp; Orion Kriegman On Wednesday October 8, one hundred people gathered at a church in Jamaica Plain, MA, to consider: Can New England Feed Itself? 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