# Slides 6.2: Local, Seasonal, and Global

Slide outline for Lesson 6.2. Thirteen slides, one day. The month-by-month slides are the ones to keep for review. [Sal: if you can get a photo of a real Long Island farm stand in August and the same stand in February, use those two on slides 3 and 4.]

## Slide 1: Local, Seasonal, and Global

- Unit 6, Lesson 6.2
- Topic 6.1 Where Food Comes From
- Today: build a January meal that a family here could actually buy
Image: a farm stand table loaded with corn, tomatoes, and peaches.

## Slide 2: Do now

- Name one fruit or vegetable you like
- Write the month you think it grows near here
- "No idea" is an honest answer
Notes: Take five answers. Put a check next to the ones that are right for New York and a question mark next to the rest, and do not say which is which yet.

## Slide 3: Two tomatoes

- One picked eleven days ago in Florida, on a truck
- One picked in August, ninety minutes from here
- Same word on the sign
- Not the same food
Image: two tomatoes side by side, one pale and firm, one deep red and slightly soft, both cut open.
Notes: This is the hook. If you are running the optional taste demo, this is when you say it is coming.

## Slide 4: What grows here, May to October

- Asparagus and strawberries in May and June
- Blueberries, cucumbers, broccoli, lettuce in summer
- Corn, tomatoes, peaches in July and August
- Apples, squash, pumpkins in the fall
Image: a four-panel grid of the same field in spring, summer, early fall, late fall.

## Slide 5: What grows here in February

- Greenhouse greens
- Mushrooms
- Eggs, milk, and cheese, all year
- And that is about it, fresh
Image: an empty field with snow on it, and next to it a greenhouse with lettuce inside.
Notes: Hold on this slide. The point lands in the silence.

## Slide 6: Storage crops: the part people forget

- Apples keep until spring
- Potatoes, onions, carrots, cabbage, winter squash keep for months
- Still New York grown, just not picked this week
Image: crates of apples in a cool storage building.
Notes: Students mark three storage crops with an S on the chart. This is the answer to "what did people here eat all winter before trucks."

## Slide 7: What has to travel

- Bananas, oranges, coffee, cocoa, rice, olive oil, black pepper
- None of these can grow here at any time of year
Image: a world map with five arrows converging on the northeastern United States.

## Slide 8: Food miles

- Food miles: how far a food traveled to reach you
- It stands in for the fuel, the trucks, and the days
- A banana: about 2,000 miles
- A New York apple in March: about 250 miles
Image: a simple bar chart, five foods, distance on the bar.

## Slide 9: The honest part

- Local is not automatically better
- A greenhouse heated all winter can burn more fuel per tomato than a truck from Florida
- How it was grown often matters more than how far it moved
Notes: Say this out loud and do not soften it. This is the slide that teaches students to check instead of repeating a slogan.

## Slide 10: Three ways to buy local

- Farmers market: you can ask who grew it
- CSA: you pay a farm up front and get a box every week in season
- School or community garden: you grow some of it
Image: three photos, a market stall, a CSA box on a porch, a raised bed at a school.

## Slide 11: The four trade-offs

- Cost
- Taste
- Availability
- Jobs
Notes: Post these and leave them up for the rest of the period. Every claim a student makes has to land in one of these four rows.

## Slide 12: Build two meals

- January and July
- Protein, grain, vegetable, fruit
- Label every item: local, state, national, or global
- Rule: the January meal has to be real
Notes: Twelve minutes, pairs. Circulate with the checklist. The realistic January answer is usually eggs, bread, a storage vegetable, and a stored apple.

## Slide 13: Your decision, and the exit card

- Pick one food. Would you pay a dollar more for the local one?
- Use all four trade-offs
- Exit card: 3 New York foods, 2 empty months, 1 question
Notes: Take four answers, two yes and two no, and hold both as reasonable. Tape the four source notes onto the wall paths before the bell.