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Field Guides to Food

Food Production, Processing, and Preparation

Between the farm and your fork, plenty of people may share in the work of preparing the final, edible product. Artifacts that describe patterns in food production, processing, and preparation show how this work determines food availability on a systemic scale.

All the ways food gets made (and transformed into edible form)


Agricultural practices > Farming culture

[resources currently marked with this tag were originally marked with the Scalar tag "Farming culture" with the definition below]

This phrase encompasses the influences on social and cultural aspects of farm-life, including managerial structure, urban and rural identity, the family, gender relations, faith, tradition, and personal histories.

One particularly important phrase to note within this category is the family farm, which is used often used to mean:
A transitional farm is one where
Related terms: family farm, transitional farm


Within the tag family "The Food System."

This page has paths:

  1. The Food System Food and Society Workshop

Contents of this tag:

  1. Known Unknowns: The Problem with GMO Research
  2. The Minnesota Project & Farmers' Legal Action Group (metadata)
  3. Video: Nonprofits to Know: The Minnesota Project and Farmers' Legal Action Group
  4. Quality of Life on the Agricultural Treadmill (metadata)
  5. Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America (metadata)
  6. Justin & Kathleen Batalden Smith interview (metadata)
  7. Organic Risk Management: Soil Health (metadata)
  8. Organic Risk Management: Soil Fertility (metadata)
  9. Minnesota Corn Growers Association (metadata)
  10. Winona County Local Foods Inventory Final Report (metadata)
  11. Migrant Farmworkers in South-Central Minnesota: Farmworker-Led Research and Action for Change (metadata)
  12. Time, Soil, and Children (metadata)
  13. Known Unknowns: The Problem with GMO Research (metadata)
  14. Winona County Local Foods Inventory Final Report
  15. Graham Meriwether interview (metadata)
  16. Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (metadata)
  17. Urban Farm & Garden Alliance (metadata)
  18. Organic Risk Management: Soil Health
  19. Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America - Full report (PDF)
  20. Interview with Ryan Batalden (metadata)
  21. Minnesota Pork Producers (metadata)
  22. Promoting Modern Agriculture (metadata)
  23. Whole Farm Planning (metadata)
  24. Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America - Executive summary (PDF)
  25. Minnesota State Cattlemen's Association (metadata)
  26. Quality of Life on the Agricultural Treadmill: Individual and Community Determinants of Farm Family Well-Being (PDF)
  27. Farm Transitions Toolkit (PDF)
  28. National Gardening Association (metadata)
  29. Migrant Farmworkers in South-Central Minnesota: Farmworker-Led Research and Action for Change
  30. Ryan Batalden, organic farmer: PDF transcript
  31. Industrial Food Animal Production in America: Examining the Impact of the Pew Commission’s Priority Recommendations (PDF)
  32. Land Stewardship Project (metadata)
  33. National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (metadata)
  34. Real wild rice (PSIN) (metadata)
  35. MISA
  36. Time, Soil, and Children (PDF)
  37. Neoliberal Ebola: The agroeconomics of a deadly spillover. (metadata)
  38. Technical Case Studies (Loon Organics & Clover Valley Farms) (metadata)
  39. Neoliberal Ebola: The agroeconomics of a deadly spillover.
  40. Video: Ryan Batalden, organic farmer
  41. Farm Transitions Toolkit (metadata)
  42. Organic Field School (metadata)
  43. Whole Farm Planning (PDF)
  44. Food Forward tv series (metadata)
  45. Minnesota Farm Bureau (metadata)
  46. Organic Risk Management: Soil Fertility