From Driscoll to Me
Step 1. Seeds are planted in Driscoll’s screen house.
Step 2. Seedlings travel from the screen house to the designated farm.
Step 3. Seedlings arrive in Watsonville, California.
Step 4. Seedlings are planted outdoors.
Step 5. Seedlings mature and are watered through an irrigation system.
Step 6. Berries are picked and sent to a Driscoll cooler.
Step 7. Berries are packaged and shipped by truck to Toronto.
Step 8. Berries arrive in Toronto and brought to store.
Step 9. Berries are purchased from store and brought home.
Step 10. Berries are taken from fridge and placed in wrap.
Step 11. Raspberries are finally consumed.

According to Google Maps the berries traveled a total of 3,218 km which takes a vehicle around 40 hours to travel. Using a freight emissions calculator, assuming that the berries were transported in a full truckload, the truck released 4.437 metric tons of CO2 Emissions.

Sources:
“Follow Us to The Farm.” Driscoll’s. n.d. Thurs. 11 July 2013.

“How We Grow.” Driscoll’s. n.d. Thurs. 11 July 2013.

“Freight Emissions Calculator.” Delivered Grean. n.d. Thurs. 11 July 2013.

To create this blog I recorded my food intake for 24 hours. I was then given the task of determining where what I ate came from and how fossil fuels played into the production and delivery of these foods. This is much harder than I thought and I am still trying to get all of this information.

Who knew the contents of my refrigerator have earned enough frequent flyer points to fly any where in the world? (…okay well we all know about the 100 mile diet, this is not news to me that my food comes from all over the world…)

Anyways here is what I ate on Monday:

Breakfast:

–      Wrap: 5 raspberries, 1 banana, 1 tablespoon of almond butter, one green vegan wrap

–       Smoothie: flax seeds, almond butter, frozen berries, almond milk, spinach

Snack 1:

–       Prunes

Snack 2:

–       Rice chips

Lunch

–       4 chickpea falafel

–       1 green vegan wrap

–       1 tablespoon of hummus

–       1 handful of baby carrots

–       the rest of the rice chips

Snack 3:

–       2 pieces of rye bread

–       Honey

Snack 4:

–       Canned fish

–       Rice chips

Let’s just say my raspberries alone deserve some recognition (Check it out for yourself)
Watsonville, CA, USA to Toronto, ON – Google Maps