Category: Sustainable Food

STLFPC Member Spotlight on Erica Williams from A Red Circle

                         How did you get started working in the food system? I live in a region with more fast food and frozen food restaurants and stores and, this ‘food swamp,’ as I call it, contributes to unhealthy lifestyles and low economic interest in the…

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Survey Results Indicate New Policies Needed to Support Urban Agriculture in St. Louis City

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: December 13, 2017 Contact: Melissa Vatterott, (314) 581-0561, mvatterott@moenviron.org Survey Results Indicate New Policies Needed to Support Urban Agriculture in St. Louis City St. Louis, MO: Onsite sales of produce and eggs, allowing for more backyard chickens, and making it easier for city residents to purchase land for food production purposes are some of the recommended…

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Meet the Farmers: Conservation Practices Across Missouri

Soil health is an extremely important component of a functioning, environmentally-sustainable farm ecosystem. Farmers can receive government support to assist with financing their sustainable practices on a state level through the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. The Missouri Department of Natural Resources incentivizes and supports these sustainable practices which conserve land and water quality through the Soil and…

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Meet the Farmers: Conservation Practices Across Missouri