Food Provenance Flashcards
What does food provenance help with list three examples
Protects the environment
Helps connect consumers with the producers directly
Increase food knowledge
List the three things food provenance tells us
Where food is grown raised or caught
How food is transported
How food was produced
Give two examples of food that is caught
Fish
Shellfish
Give three examples of food that is reared
Beef (cows)
Chicken
Pork (pigs)
Give three examples of food that is grown
Potatoes
Carrots
Strawberries
What is food provenance
The origin of food
What is food security
Having access to information about where food comes from and that it is safe to eat
What are the steps to grow food
Prepare soil
Sow seeds
Watering
Fertilising
Weeding
Protecting from pests
Harvesting
Separation and inspection
Storage
Give three characteristics of intensive farming
High yield crops
Chemical fertiliser
Mechanised agriculture
Give three characteristics of organic farming
Crop rotation linked to seasons
Natural pest control
Animals given space to move freely
What are the four fishing methods
Pots and creels
Line caught
Trawling
Dredging
Explain pots and creels
Baited and placed on the sea bed to be collected later
Explain the method of line caught fish
Using baited hooks
Explain trawling
Drawing a net towed by a boat
Explain dredging
Dragging metal framed nets with rakes through the sea bed
