18 Aug Sat 2012
Farmers Markets & Foodshed's, Succession Planting and Three Yummy Farmer's Market Recipes!
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! <font face="Bradley Hand
ITC">*Though it may be unfamiliar, the term "foodshed" was used
almost 80 years ago in a book entitled How Great Cities Are
Fed (<a onmouseover=" return
self.status='CP___PAGEID=419469,/cals/css/extension/upload/Hedden.pdf';
" onmouseout=" return self.status=''; " href="javascript:HandleLink('cpe_391916_0','CPNEWWIN:NewWindow^top=10,left=10,width=500,height=400,toolbar=0,location=0,directories=0,status=,menubar=0,scrollbars=0,resizable=1@CP___PAGEID=419469,/cals/css/extension/upload/Hedden.pdf');">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
(<a onmouseover=" return
self.status='CP___PAGEID=419470,/cals/css/extension/upload/Kloppenburg.pdf';
" onmouseout=" return self.status=''; " href="javascript:HandleLink('cpe_391916_0','CPNEWWIN:NewWindow^top=10,left=10,width=500,height=400,toolbar=0,location=0,directories=0,status=,menubar=0,scrollbars=0,resizable=1@CP___PAGEID=419470,/cals/css/extension/upload/Kloppenburg.pdf');">Kloppenburg
et al., 1996). In this project, the general definition of
a foodshed is a geographic area that supplies a <a onmouseover=" return
self.status='CP___PAGEID=418649,/cals/css/extension/upload/Population-Centers.pdf';
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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 (<a onmouseover="
return
self.status='CP___PAGEID=419468,/cals/css/extension/upload/Peters.pdf';
" onmouseout=" return self.status=''; " href="javascript:HandleLink('cpe_391916_0','CPNEWWIN:NewWindow^top=10,left=10,width=500,height=400,toolbar=0,location=0,directories=0,status=,menubar=0,scrollbars=0,resizable=1@CP___PAGEID=419468,/cals/css/extension/upload/Peters.pdf');">Peters,
2007).
*Used from Cornell University web site, 2012[Read More]
*Used from Cornell University web site, 2012[Read More]
Neil & Jean
07:16 PM EDT