Robert Wilbur
Local Organic Farm
This photo was taken in September 2018 and is of cabbage being grown at a local organic farm that provides vegetables to the local community through community supported agriculture (CSA). The idea of CSA ties in very closely to the United Nation Sustainable Development Goal 12, of sustainable production and consumption patterns. A farm that runs based on CSA lends itself very well to sustainable consumption patterns because the consumer of the vast majority of the products that come from these farms do not require much travel to get to their end destination and as such have a much lower environmental consequence. Additionally since this is an organic farm, especially one located in the state of Maryland many sustainable production practices are already in effect. The state of Maryland has a wide range of nutrient testing that is required of agricultural land and through this testing dramatically reduces the excess nutrients that are normally offloaded onto agricultural land. These regulations combined with the management practices and lack of synthetic chemicals that make this an organic farm are what help to move towards more environmentally sound management of chemicals and pesticides used for food production. Additionally this farm in particular has systems in place to help conserve one of Earth’s scarcest resources, water. A drip line irrigation system is in place across all of the cultivated land resulting in the use of 60% less water at this site than if it was irrigated traditionally, further helping to ensure sustainable production of food.
Local Organic Farm
This photo was taken in September 2018 and is of cabbage being grown at a local organic farm that provides vegetables to the local community through community supported agriculture (CSA). The idea of CSA ties in very closely to the United Nation Sustainable Development Goal 12, of sustainable production and consumption patterns. A farm that runs based on CSA lends itself very well to sustainable consumption patterns because the consumer of the vast majority of the products that come from these farms do not require much travel to get to their end destination and as such have a much lower environmental consequence. Additionally since this is an organic farm, especially one located in the state of Maryland many sustainable production practices are already in effect. The state of Maryland has a wide range of nutrient testing that is required of agricultural land and through this testing dramatically reduces the excess nutrients that are normally offloaded onto agricultural land. These regulations combined with the management practices and lack of synthetic chemicals that make this an organic farm are what help to move towards more environmentally sound management of chemicals and pesticides used for food production. Additionally this farm in particular has systems in place to help conserve one of Earth’s scarcest resources, water. A drip line irrigation system is in place across all of the cultivated land resulting in the use of 60% less water at this site than if it was irrigated traditionally, further helping to ensure sustainable production of food.