What's a Foodshed you ask? Most people who call themselves
Localvore's, Foodies or the like will probably be familiar with
this term, but for those of you who are not, here is a brief
description and how you can make or find one! *Though it may be unfamiliar, the term "foodshed" was used
almost 80 years ago in a book entitled How Great Cities Are
Fed (Hedden,
1929) to describe the flow of food from producer to
consumer. Seven decades later, the term was used to describe a
food system that connected local producers with local consumers
(Kloppenburg
et al., 1996). In this project, the general definition of
a foodshed is a geographic area that supplies a population
center with food. However, the Mapping Local Food Systems
Project focused specifically on potential local
foodsheds, areas of nearby land that could theoretically
provide part or all of a city's food needs (Peters,
2007).
*Used from Cornell
University web site, 2012 [
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