Calendars

Other Local Food Calendars & News Pages:

• News from KCCUA (KC Center for Urban Agriculture) http://kccua.org/news.htm
• KC Healthy Kids – Upcoming Events http://kchealthykids.org/Event-EventEngine2/Index.htm
• Growing Growers current Workshop Schedule http://www.growinggrowers.org/Pages/workshop.htm
• Kansas City Slow Food Convivium http://www.slowfoodkc.org/
• VegKansasCity.com Vegan and Vegetarian Events, Classes, and Meetings In and Around Kansas City This calendar lists all of Kansas City’s upcoming vegan, vegetarian, animal rights, and sustainable environment-related events, classes, meetings, and notable national / international events. Be sure to scan ahead, as some events require you to pre-register!
• Kansas City Raw Food Meetup Group Calendar http://rawfood.meetup.com/197/calendar/

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Why did the coordinating committee of the KC Food Circle voted to cosponsor this KC rally?

• By relying on manure, compost, and nitrogen-fixing crops to build soil fertility, organic farmers avoid the CO2 emissions caused by burning fossil fuels to mine and manufacture synthetic fertilizers
• By adding nitrogen to the soil through biological means, organic farmers avoid emissions of nitrous oxide–a greenhouse gas that’s ~300 times as potent as CO2–which come from land fertilized with synthetic nitrogen
• Growing crops organically and pasturing farm animals increases the amount of carbon stored in soil, removing CO2 from the atmosphere
• Growing food very close to where it’s eaten reduces the use of fuel for transportation
• Pasturing farm animals enables them to eat a healthy diet of green plants, insects, etc., reducing and in some cases eliminating energy-intensive corn and soy feed
• Pasturing farm animals allows their waste to return directly to the soil, avoiding emissions of the greenhouse gases methane and nitrous oxide from concentrated waste storage at confined-animal feeding operations
• Locally-grown foods are typically minimally-processed and packaged, reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions

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