PART 6

FIELD NOTES FOR THE EMERGENCE OF A FOODSHED

Recognition of one’s residence within a foodshed can confer a sense of connection and responsibility to a particular locality. The foodshed can provide a place for us to ground ourselves in the biological and social realities of living on the land and from the land in a place that we can call home, a place to which we are or can become native.

—JACK KLOPPENBURG JR., “COMING IN TO THE FOODSHED