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Food Desert
- problem definition/description
- existing initiatives that address food deserts (there are a lot, so just sticking to what came up in this thread related to PL)
- Newark Green Community Garden
- Growing Power
- etc
- research directions
- Link to Ariel's research papers
- Project outline
- Project article: https://medium.com/@levisimons/are-food-deserts-also-food-monocultures-31de780a6db4
Questions on Food Deserts:
Title | Author | Updated | Likes | Comments |
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Can we share examples of food buying collectives in food deserts? | @wward1400 | over 6 years ago | 0 | 1 |
food quality
- problem definition/description
- research directions
- food fraud (link to Yagiz' work on olive/peanut oil spectroscopy)
- nutrient density experiments
Questions on Food:
Title | Author | Updated | Likes | Comments |
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Can we share examples of food buying collectives in food deserts? | @wward1400 | over 6 years ago | 0 | 1 |
DIY methods for nitrate detection in food? | @fez | almost 8 years ago | 2 | 2 |
food growing research
- Infrared imagery for plant health
- in cover crop monitoring (FarmHack)
- in crop surveillance (FarmHack, other farms)
- in community gardens evaluating/demonstrating their practices (Green Community Garden)
- Multispectral analysis for plant health
- Tracking outputs
- Farming Concrete / Five Borough Farm
- more here....
Activities:
Purpose | Category | Status | Author | Time | Difficulty | Replications |
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Detection of Olive Oil Adulteration (with Peanut Oil) Using Visual Light Spectroscopy | - | - | @ygzstc | 10h | medium | 0 replications: Try it » |
Bean Cam | observe | - | @cfastie | 1d | medium | 0 replications: Try it » |
Youth of Ironbound set 2014 garden goals | weigh-produce | - | @liz | - | - | 0 replications: Try it » |
Activities should include a materials list, costs and a step-by-step guide to construction with photos. Learn what makes a good activity here.
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