characteristics are described below. You have come together with your neighbors for a special meeting

DUE IN 16 HOURS Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, read Chapter 4 in your course textbook. Imagine that you are a resident of Ashfordton, a community whose characteristics are described below. You have come together with your neighbors for a special meeting to devise a management plan for helping the community become more resilient and sustainable in terms of its food production by 2050. A community that is resilient is able to recover quickly from events like drought or storms. By increasing its own food production, Ashfordton can also reduce its food miles—the distance that imported food must travel. By making its food production more sustainable, Ashfordton can help ensure that its residents’ food needs are supplied for generations to come, without placing undue harm on the local environment in the process. Fortunately, you have all attended the meeting with the knowledge that you have gained from your readings in this course. Now it is time to put your thinking cap on and get to work! Your ideas should consist of one or more of the following elements (some suggestions may apply to both categories): This week’s discussion will take place in an online app called Tricider. There, you will be able to post your ideas for plan components and also share pros and cons of different proposals during the week. Finally, you will be able to vote on the three components that you think the plan should include. For directions on how to use the Tricider app, please review the . In Tricider, you will be expected to do the following: You must complete the three tasks above to receive full credit for this discussion. Please note: You are welcome to post questions and comments to this board for your instructor; however, this discussion board does not have any posting requirements of its own, and no additional credit will be given for posts made here. In this discussion area, your instructor will post the following: Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, read Chapters 3 and 4 in your course textbook. Now that you have cast your votes for the Ashfordton Food Resilience Plan, it is time to explain your choices to the class. Please make a post of at least 150 words in which you Each of the elements with an explanation is worth .5 point for a total of 1.5 points. You will not be able to view others’ posts until you have made your own. At the end of the week, the instructor will post the winning Ashfordton Food Resilience Plan, which will include the top three ideas selected by the class. In cases where two action items are judged by the instructor to be nearly identical, the instructor reserves the right to combine the ideas into a single one (and add votes together) in order to determine the winning ideas. This plan will be posted in the Announcements area of the classroom. Bensel, T., & Carbone, I. (2020). . Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu Carolina Distance Learning. (n.d.). [Investigation manual]. Retrieved from https://ashford.instructure.com FoodPrint. (n.d.). . Retrieved from https://foodprint.org/issues/sustainable-agriculture-vs-industrial-agriculture/?cid=246 Ashford University. (2018). . Retrieved from https://ashford.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/SCI207+-+THE+SCIENTIFIC+METHOD/1_5325onvq Happen Films. (2017, May 21). [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/hWkYtZxpQUo University of California Davis, Agricultural Sustainability Institute. (n.d.). . Retrieved from http://asi.ucdavis.edu/programs/sarep/about/what-is-sustainable-agriculture Union of Concerned Scientists. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.ucsusa.org/food-agriculture/advance-sustainable-agriculture/what-is-sustainable-agriculture#.W1Ekbdgzqu4