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Good Farms Must Be Sustainable

by GoodFarmsNovember 7, 2019
Food waste, Sustainability
    Farms depend on nature’s generous yet fragile bounty to nourish and delight you, so for a farm to be good, it has to be sustainable.   Several of our farms are certified organic by the USDA-accredited CCOF. In addition, all our farms are…
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Date Codes Contribute to Food Waste

by GoodFarmsNovember 15, 2017
All, Food access and affordability, Food safety, Food waste, Health, Sustainability
    We are following like lemmings, throwing good food away.   According to Emily Broad Leib of the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic, date labels are a leading cause of food waste. People are confused by date codes, usually assuming they are expiration…
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The Natural Gems Buried by Time

by GoodFarmsNovember 13, 2017
All, Food access and affordability, Food waste
    What looks beautiful and natural to you today may have taken centuries of human influence to become that way.   Nowadays, many people want to avoid fruit that seems to be produced unnaturally. Whether it’s the use of chemicals or the creation of…
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Farmers Need to Eat Healthy Too

by GoodFarmsNovember 13, 2017
All, Food access and affordability, Food insecurity, Food waste, Health, Social responsibility
    GoodFarms has been working with the County of Monterey, California to provide our team members and their families with healthier meals.   The county’s food bank has a program where they work with agricultural companies to deliver healthy food at convenient times for…
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How More Taste and Less Waste Go Together

by GoodFarmsNovember 13, 2017
All, Food waste
    When it comes to produce, sometimes we just don’t know what we’re missing.   A Vox article by Julia Belluz makes the case that produce tastes better in Europe because Europeans demand it. Their priorities when buying produce center on flavor rather than…
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Beware: Restaurants are Ripping Off Local Farmers

by GoodFarmsNovember 13, 2017
All, Food access and affordability, Social responsibility
    Just because you see it on the menu, it doesn’t mean it’s true.   An article in San Diego Magazine, by Troy Johnson, describes the ongoing corruption of the farm-to-table ideal.   “Like any good movement, farm-to-table has now been severely co-opted. The…
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We Throw Away 40% of Our Food

by GoodFarmsNovember 13, 2017
All, Food access and affordability, Food insecurity, Food waste, Sustainability
    We plant it, nurture it, harvest it, ship it, and buy it; then we throw it away.   Research from Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) shows that Americans throw away $218 billion worth of food every year that we could otherwise eat. This…
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Documenting the Undocumented in Mexico

by GoodFarmsNovember 13, 2017
All, Social responsibility
    GoodFarms worked with the governor’s office in Baja California, Mexico to help people in the community of San Quintin obtain official birth certificates.   Some people, born in remote villages, can get caught in a state of legal limbo when they migrate to…
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Take Your Food Waste and Shove It

by GoodFarmsNovember 13, 2017
All, Food access and affordability, Food insecurity, Food waste, Social responsibility
    We should never use the term food waste again.   Doug Rauch, the former president of Trader Joes and the founder of Daily Table, says that nobody wants a second helping of food waste, but nobody is for wasting food. So take the…
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Farmworker Assured: Red Button Moments

by GoodFarmsNovember 13, 2017
All, Food safety, Social responsibility, Sustainability
    Don’t be afraid to press the red button.   That is what members of the GoodFarms team are taught under the Equitable Food Initiative (EFI). The idea of the “red button moment” began on Toyota’s production lines. It is the belief that safety…
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