Movement Change Local narrative since it is arguably the most primary
What connections can we draw between backyard garden to local environmental concerns
To what meta scale concerns
Farmers markets provide a potential hub for small local food producers
Some farmers markets do not have truly local growers
Cooperatives of local growers may provide more local food at the markets
Is food produced at a distance more economically efficient?
Does the price of distantly produced food reflect true economic value?
Can economic efficiency be separate from environmental questions?
Public street. front yards and guerrilla gardening
Carbon in soil
Food Justice
Food Security
Food Freedom
Patterns in the Media
Themes
Transparency
Informational flows
Opening dialogues
Localism Self sufficiency
Environmental Concerns
The philosophical divide of how we see plants and animals
Economics
Centralization of of large industrial Farms
Land based grant universities involvement and incentives
Growing freedom issues Raw milk
Local requirements for growing standards
Efficiencies/Scale
Liability/Certification
The reality of the present pricing system should not be the final verdict in determining true value
Economics special for food since it is the most primary of economic goods
Objective ideas
Recovering traditional knowledge and the significance that it has been allowed to be lost
Technical growing memes
Does greater organic content allow for less negative impacts of PH balance problems
Till/No Till
Weed no weed
Insecticide versus pests as health beacon
Growing without irrigation
What systems produce highest nutrient and healthiest foods
Environmental and economic concerns with particular crops
Movement Change
Seed saving as a movement
Controversies
Is locally grown food have less of energy input that distant economizes
Sub category of this self resilience and locally produced tools, another products
Most general environmental health concerns directly involved from growing practice for humans
Industrial residues on plant produce or inside animal products including antibiotics and hormones
Industrial residues released into the general environment from treating crops and animals for food production
Carbon sequestration and its relation to farming practice
Specific crops and their demand on resources. Example-Almonds and beef need a lot water
Water depletion in terms of resource more complicated than just quantity of water used
Garden products whose production either creates environmental degradation or finite resource depletion