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accessibility: of community gardens/orchards; of CSAs; food deserts; of food hubs; of local food
African Americans: CSA history and; as farmers; local food preferences of
aggregation systems: alternatives to corporate aggregation; city renewal markets and; CSA aggregation; food banks; FPCs and; local food security and; market rules and; overview; plain community produce auctions; SES model and; social factors in; US geographic food sources. See also food hubs
agribusiness
agrileisure
agritourism
Alexander, Paul
Alexander, Tim
Alkon, Alison Hope
Allen, Gary: Sausage: A Global History
American Community Gardening Association
Amish food distribution
Amsden, Ben
Appalachia
Arnould, Eric
artisanal production: class-based consumption and; processing and; relationship to sustainability; scale as component of; traditional agriculture as basis for
Asian Americans: Asian American farmers; Asian greens; CSAs and; at farmers’ markets
Athens Land Trust (Georgia)
back-to-the-land movement
Bauman, Richard
Beauchamp, Ryan Wood
Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program
beginning farmer-ranchers
Berkeley, California
Berry, Wendell
Biodynamic Association
biodynamic farming
Block, Daniel
Bloomington, Indiana: cooperative groceries; food hub proposal; foodshed; Hoosier Hills Food Bank; Linnea’s Greenhouse; Local Growers’ Guild; WE Farm. See also Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market; Bloomington Food Policy Council; Bloomington Winter Farmers’ Market
Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market (Indiana)
Bloomington Food Policy Council
Bloomington Winter Farmers’ Market
Bodimer, Lewis
Bowen, Sarah
Bowens, Natasha
Brooklyn-Queens Land Trust
Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust
Burnquist, Joseph A. A.
Business Alliance for Local Living Economies
Carpenter, Mary
Carpenter, Novella
Carpenter, Quentin
Center for a Livable Future (Johns Hopkins University)
Central City Farmer’s Market (Huntington, West Virginia)
centralization: centralized food production and consumption; CSAs and; farmers’ market centralized shopping; food production information; FPCs and; local food and
Chesapeake Bay
children: community gardens and; farm families and; local food systems and; market shopper demographics and; as Obama garden helpers; SNAP program
Chile Woman, the
Cincinnati, Ohio
City Fresh (Cleveland, Ohio)
civic agriculture
Clark, Dylan
Clark, Kyle
climate change
collective action
Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP)
community orchards
community supported agriculture (CSA): agrileisure and; alternative payment systems; community ideal and; community level food policy and; definition and scope; delivery alternatives; as demanding experience; economic factors in; emergency relief foods and; farmer-shareholder partnerships; food systems and; history and principles of; institutional CSAs; internet technology and; marketing in; methods of operation; overview; shared risk in; shareholder experience; social privilege and
convenience foods
Cook, Daniel Thomas
co-ops: cooperative farming; “cooperative” food category; cooperative housing; cooperative market vendors; cooperative meals; cooperative processing; cooperative social association; CSAs; food hubs; groceries; produce auctions
county extensions
cow/herd sharing
crafted goods. See artisanal production
cruelty-free movement
Cuttingsville, Vermont
dairy farms and products
Davies County Produce Auction
direct marketing
disability
Drake, Luke
dumpster diving
eating: as agricultural act; eating local; food consumption and; food systems and; growing-eating disconnect; healthfulness of US food; US geographic food sources
economy: agricultural commons; agrileisure and; artisanal revaluation of labor; bank loans for farming; cost of local food; CSA economic stability; CSA financial partnership; determinism in global food economies; diversification of local economies; electronic banking and mobile payments; farmers’ markets and; food consumption; food hub economic models; food security and; “local business” definition; local economy loyalty; local food social capital; sharing economy; SNAP voucher food purchasing; social privilege of CSA shareholders; as sustainability component; vendor income
Ellis, Alexander Caswell
emergency relief foods
environment: biodiversity; ecosystems; environmental footprint; environmental stewardship; foodshed as conservation ethic; global climate change; monocrop farming and; out-of-season consumption and; public support for; supply chain environmental factors
Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)
ethnicity
Eugene Local Foods
Evening Song Farm (Cuttingsville, Vermont)
Evenstar Farm
faith communities and churches: faith community CSAs; faith community markets; plain community produce auctions; rural social norms and isolation
family: CSA membership and; family farms; family shopping at markets; family vendors at markets; farm inheritance and; food hubs and; as “local” component; u-pick farms and
Farmer, James R.
Farmer, Sara
Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program
farmers’ markets: agrileisure and; city renewal markets; community level food policy and; as component of local agriculture; consumer choices and; crossroads markets; demographics of customers; economics of; entertainment and festivity; farmers’ market tourism; growth in United States; history of; internet technology and; marketstand design; organization and management; proprietary markets; public grower-vendor markets; seasonal markets; shopping strategies in; small farmer-organized markets; social factors in; values marketing strategies; vendor income; vendor signage
farming: agricultural commons; all-season farming; artisanal production; artisanal revaluation of labor; beginning farmer-ranchers; biodynamic farming; civic agriculture; community orchards; as demanding experience; demographics of farmers; “farmer” identity; farm marketing strategies; farm-site marketstands; micro farms; minority farmers; organic farming; professional knowledge in; recent changes in; rural social norms and isolation; societal views of; u-pick farms; urban agriculture. See also gardening; land; women farmers
Farmstand mobile phone app
farm-to-school movement
Farrer, James
fast food
Federation of Ohio River Co-ops
fertilizer
Fitzgerald, Kara
food banks
food deserts
food hubs, overview; Bloomington (Indiana) food hub proposal; business models for; community oversight of; computer software for; local food systems and; SES model and; social benefits of; Wild Ramp (Huntington, West Virginia)
food policy councils (FCPs)
food security
foodsheds
food systems: as book theme; case studies in; design-based research and; SES model for; sustainability and; systems thinking in local foods. See also local food; sustainability
FRESHFARM markets (Washington, DC, area)
Fresh Food Finder mobile phone app
Fresh Stops (Louisville, Kentucky)
Fruit Tree Planting Foundation (FTPF)
Fullcircle Farm
Future Farmers of America (FFA)
Gallardo, Kallina
Gallatin Valley Botanicals (Montana)
Gallipolis, Ohio
gardening: Alice Waters restaurant garden; backyard gardens; community gardens; kitchen garden surplus stands; Michelle Obama White House garden; Alice Waters restaurant garden.See also farming
Genesee Valley Organic CSA (Rochester, New York)
gleaning
GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms)
Good Agricultural Practices (GAP)
Goodell, Sage (pseudonym)
Good Shepherd Food Bank
Governance Systems
grain-fed food category
grass-fed food category
Gray, Mary L.
Great Depression
grocery stores
Groh, Trauger
Groundwork Farm
Grove, J. D.
Guthman, Julie
Hanson, James
Hardin, Garrett
Hartenfeld, Jeff
Harvest mobile phone app
health: farming relationship with; food accessibility and; healthfulness of US food; local food accountability and; as local food component; as shared responsibility
heirloom food category
Herrera, Remy
high tunnels
Hinrichs, Clare
Homestead Organics Farm Inc. (Montana)
Hoosier Harvest Market (Greenfield, Indiana)
Hoosier Hills Food Bank
Hunter, Chris
Huntington, West Virginia
Illich, Ivan
immigrants
Indiana Locally Grown
Indiana New Farm School
Indianapolis, Indiana
Indian Line Farm
industrial agriculture: chemical fertilizer, insecticide, and herbicide; commodity crops; food production/consumption and; monocrop farming
industrial food: additives and preservatives; food recalls; local food as response; local remediation of
internet technology
internships
Intuit GoPayment
Iowa Food Hub (West Union, Iowa)
Japan
Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
Johnson, Amanda
Jones, Larry
just food
justice (food justice): CSA member class profile and; food systems and; FPCs and; just food; local food and
Kashgar, China
Kemmis, Daniel
Kennebec Estuary Land Trust
Kentucky
Kestrel Land Trust (Massachusetts)
Kingsolver, Barbara
Kolko, John
Kroger
Kyle, Edwin Jackson
labeling (food labels)
land: acquisition challenges; conservation; CSA communal ownership; farmland loss/preservation; inherited farmland; land health and stewardship; land knowledge; land trusts; public land farming; scale of operation and; urban land reclamation; women landowners. See also farming
Lau, Kin Chi
Lawson, Laura
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
LGBTQ
Linnea’s Greenhouse
local food: ambitions for; communications technology and; definition; economic factors in; environmental stewardship and; farm-to-table accountability; freshness as attraction; land acquisition and; local food advocacy; localism; meaning of local; power-sharing strategies in; publications on; public preference for; scale as component of; social factors in; social privilege and; temporal component of; traditional agriculture and. See also food systems
Local Food Hub (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Local Food Marketplace
Local Growers’ Guild (Bloomington, Indiana)
Local Harvest CSA
Locavore mobile phone app
Lucky’s Market
Lyson, Thomas A.
Mainers Feeding Mainers program
Maple Valley Farm
marketing: as CSA component; farm marketing strategies; market management and; market vendor signage; publications on; values marketing strategies
Marlett Farm CSA
mass production. See industrial agriculture; industrial food
Matthews, Amy
Mattozzi, Antonio
McEntee, Jesse
McFadden, Steven
McGinnis, Michael
media: CSA websites; Facebook; internet technology; market publicity; market public relations; market vendor websites; social media platforms; USDA website
Mercer Island Farmers’ Market (Mercer Island, Washington)
Michigan
micro farms
Midwest
Miller Farm (Earlham College)
minority farmers
Morrow, Michael
National Agriculture Statistic Service (NASS)
National Organic Program (NOP)
National Restaurant Association
Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
Nelson, Willie
newcomers (to local food)
New York, New York
niche farms
Nicholas, Kimberly
Nickels, Tim
Norris, Tansy (pseudonym)
North Carolina Highlands
Novak, David
Nowak, Zachary
Obama, Michelle
Oliver, Jamie
Orchard Foundation
orchards
“organic” regulated label
Ostrom, Elinor
Parsons, Julie M.
Pirog, Rich
Polimeni, John
potluck/cooperative meals
Press, Melea
produce auctions
productivity-based approaches. See industrial food
Project Orange Thumb
public health
race
raw milk
recreation and leisure: agrileisure; agritourism and; community gardens/orchards and; CSAs and; definitions; farmers’ markets and; land trusts and; local food systems and; serious leisure
remediated food
restaurants: chain restaurant standardization; fast food; food hubs and; as food system component; locally sourced; National Restaurant Association survey; produce auctions and
Reynolds, Heather
Robinson, Jennifer Meta
Rogowski, Cheryl
Rosing, Howard
Roxbury Biodynamic Farm (Kinderhook, New York)
Santa Monica Organic Farmers Market
scale: artisanal production and; CSAs and; farmers’ markets and; food hubs and; food systems and; FPCs and; land/environment and; local agency and; local food and; micro farms; mobile payment systems and; monocrop farming and; scaling up (local food production); small-scale accountability; sustainability and
Seasons mobile phone app
serious leisure
Shinew, Kimberly
Simmons, Brenda
Slow Foods movement
small batch production. See artisanal production
Small Farm Center (West Virginia University)
Sobremesa Farm (Monroe County, Indiana)
social-ecological systems (SES) framework
South Circle Farm (near Indianapolis, Indiana)
Steiner, Rudolph
Stephenson, Gary
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
sustainability: agricultural commons; community orchards and; food as central component; food distribution systems and; interdependent factors; local food advocacy and; social-ecological systems (SES) framework. See also food systems
systems thinking
Target
technology and local food
Teiki movement
Temple-Wilson Community Farm
tourism
transportation
Trust for Public Land
Tubene, Stephan
underrepresentation (in local food)
Union Square Greenmarket (New York City)
University of Kentucky Extension Service
University of Richmond CSA (Virginia)
u-pick agriculture
urban agriculture
Urban Agriculture Network
USDA (US Department of Agriculture): agrileisure and; Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program; CSA definition; NASS land transfer report; NRCS cost-sharing program; online resources; report on agritourism; report on household gardens; US food distribution and
US Food, Conservation, and Energy Act (2008)
Veldman, Marcia
Walmart
Waters, Alice
Wayne, Laura Beth
Wayne-Egenolf CSA
WE Farm (Bloomington, Indiana)
West Virginia University Small Farm Center
Whatley, Booker T.
Whole Foods Market
Wild Ramp (Huntington, West Virginia)
Willamette Farm and Food Coalition (Eugene, Oregon)
Winter Farmers’ Market (Bloomington, Indiana)
women farmers: career patterns; economic profile; goals and ambitions; increase in number of; professional knowledge and; rural social norms and; special difficulties for
Women Infants and Children (WIC)
Wright, Rebecca (pseudonym)
W. Rogowski Farm
WWOOF (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms)
“you food” rhetoric