Buying Food
is an introduction to intentional food-buying, intended for everyone - especially those who do the food shopping for their household. We guide you through rearranging your perspective on buying food so that you have more control over the power of your money and a give a bunch of tips on how to tend to your foods to reduce waste.
Produce Storage insert:
This comparison table lists plants that are heavy producers of the gas ethylene and those that are sensitive to it. Ethylene encourages ripening, some plants continue to emit ethylene and ripen after being harvested, these are the plants in the left hand column. They ripen themselves with the ethylene they emit, and sensitive plants that are kept too close will be affected, see the right hand column.
Bruised/damaged plants give off even more ethylene, eat immediately.
For an extended list and more details on storing produce, visit the Reference Library!
Resources:https://risingtide.coop/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/NCG_Produce-Storage-Guide_for_Web.pdfhttps://nchfp.uga.edu/how/store.htmlhttps://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-markets-prices/retailing-wholesaling/retail-trends/https://www.foodindustry.com/articles/a-list-of-the-top-ten-grocery-chains-in-the-united-states/https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2013/06/27/you-toss-food-wait-check-it-out