FedEx would not leave packages to freeze on a cold day when no one was at home. (Salmon & Wylie, 1995) Therefore, we could know that there were several advantages from C&C’s business model. First, it reduced the time to deliver flowers from growers to final customers. Second, it helped C&C to provide a good quality product, a fresher flower. Third, it cut all intermediary commissions in the supply chain, so C&C could create its own competitive in this market.
During the second term my focus has been on developing my skills to become a more valuable member of the health visiting team. My previous career within emergency nursing means I find the drop in clinic setting to be the area I am most comfortable within and this unscheduled method of contact a familiar one. I have been assisting the health visitor (HV) or child health advisor (CHA) each week with at least one clinic to improve my skills within this setting. This enables me to see a wide range of more common concerns and queries on a high volume basis but within a setting that affords me the opportunity to ask a colleague for advice if I am unsure. I feel I am learning a diverse range of subjects that will better equip me to answer questions
While driving through my grandmother’s quiet town of Bloomfield, you might encounter a quiet yet thriving farmer’s market on the outskirts of town. Weekly, farmers bring their crops to be sold to local buyers. Here is the locavore movement, intrinsically linked not only to a close knit quiet town, but also to issues of nutrition, sustainability, and economics. Locally grown food is a great way to reduce your carbon footprint while enjoying tastier, healthier food at a lower cost. The nutritional value of food grown locally is far superior to that of alien products with many food miles to them (items shipped over oceans, countries, and borders).
This lowers their storage and inventory costs considerably. It also increases customer satisfaction. The next small business provides services for the home gardener. Redwoman Blooms is a small family owned plant nursery. Doing business in an area whose predominate members are retirees, opened a niche for this business to primarily offer easy to grow container or small home garden items.
These gardens, which are basically agricultural markets, serves as a way to find and serve food that has been directly cared for by its patrons, who are the same people that end up with a meal from these gardens. Rather than go to a supermarket and have no idea where any of the produce came from or how it was made, community gardens serve in its self reliance that a community can trust where its food sources are coming from. Its goals are to not only to protest against food corporations but to also find a way to increase employment and education in its members. Community gardens find a way
We will use only the freshest products without unnecessary additives in our products. We will donate stock in good condition to local shelters. We will provide the best service and information to customers, and we will be friendly while providing help. We will be the best choice for high quality foods and wines for our customers. Environmental
• Preparedness for National Disaster/Fuel Crisis • Local produce taste better • Local produce is better for you • Promotes produce diversity • Is GMO free • Helps to build community • Good for local economy/supports local farmers • Beneficial for the environment 11 What are the challenges to local food in Vermont? • Diet adjustments would be needed • Production diversity is lacking • Lack of processing and storage facilities • Cheaper to import foods from agribusiness farms 16 What is currently being done to
Kelsey promotes a earth-friendly community to a better quality of life through services such as environmental awareness and healthy lifestyle. The people that live in Kelsey eat organic foods, like fruits and vegetables they live totally off the land. They promote a better quality of live for the people in their community. Blair Smith, founder of Smith Systems Consulting, Inc., Huffman Trucking, Kelsey Gardens are the largest employers in Kelsey. Kelsey’s housing industry creates employment opportunities for construction workers, contractors, engineers, designers and Baderman
The article “Hemp-could save America” (2011) states that some of hemp’s agricultural benefits especially for American farmers are that hemp can be grown without any herbicides, fungicides, or pesticides. Hemp is weed and pest resistant and also improves the soil in crop rotation. This makes hemp more cost efficient and safer to cultivate. According to the article “Hemp-could save America” (2011) the hemp fiber can be used to make almost all the paper products used in the US. Hemp paper does not yellow
There are many advantages and disadvantages both ecological and economical to buying locally versus buying from larger companies that manufacture their food from around the country and sometimes across the world. Buying locally made foods will give the most nutritional value due to food being at the peak of growth and not sent around and the country or around the world. Buying locally also helps the farmers to be able to get fair prices on their produce. According to Terrie Schultz, 2010 "Industrial agriculture is a major source of water pollution. Runoff of chemical fertilizers, animal waste and pesticides contaminates lakes and streams.