On Wednesday, December 16 from 1-3pm, Localecopia held a “meet & greet” at the world-renowned Breakers Resort.
LOCALECOPIA Meet & Greet – Tuesday November 17, 2015
We had the pleasure of being a part of the Localecopia Meet & Greet on Tuesday, November 17, 2015, from 1pm-3pm at The Breakers Palm Beach (www.thebreakers.com). Sprouts! Inc. and Our Wonderful World Media has been a vendor for many years.
Florida – Our Winter Food Paradise
Florida currently has 48,000 farms on land that covers 9 million acres. In 2012, our state was number one in the value of production of oranges, grapefruit, market snap beans, market cucumbers, squash, sweet corn, market tomatoes, pickle cucumbers and watermelon. We also ranked second in bell peppers, strawberries and tangerines.
South Florida – We Have It Made!
Our climate has advantages other than promoting tourism. When you move inland from the beaches and away from the theme parks, you will find the other Florida – a world of agriculture. Our climate makes food production possible year round…
Localecopia Hosts Meet & Greet in Style
The Localecopia Meet & Greet on November 19 at The Breakers Palm Beach was, by far, the most well-attended event ever for this 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Over 40 tables of locally-produced products were on display…
Don’t Mess with Mother Nature!
Beginning with the end of the 20th century, we embarked on a path of genetically engineered crops. Now, nearly all of our staple foods including corn, soy canola and sugar beets are grown from genetically modified seed owned exclusively by a few large corporations.
Is That A Weed or My Salad Greens?
We have been conditioned to accept that food is food only if we can find it on the grocery store shelves. This is unfortunate since we can find tasty and nutritious food all around us – and it’s free!
How Can We Preserve Our Wonderful World?
It is getting hard to ignore the signs of our changing climate. Extreme weather events are in the headlines nearly every day. Drought, floods, heat waves, extreme winter storms and rising seas are all symptoms of our planet adjusting to the change in the atmosphere. Science has determined why this is occurring and how a single species is changing an entire planet.
Is the Manatee Our Canary in the Coal Mine?
Change is never easy. While we see the impact on nature from our actions, we cannot see the ultimate effect that they will have on us, and certainly not on the generations of those that will follow. Every year that we continue on the short path of profits with limited investments in our future, we are making it more costly in the long haul.
Drugs in your food – an Rx for disaster
Our process of food production, particularly factory farming is rapidly making antibiotic treatment ineffective and may soon make them useless. How did this happen?