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- noun Plural form of
foodshed .
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Of course, CSAs are just one piece in a patchwork of solutions to reknit regional foodsheds, but more importantly they exemplify the value of community that undergirds a climate-friendly food system.
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Of course, CSAs are just one piece in a patchwork of solutions to reknit regional foodsheds, but more importantly they exemplify the value of community that undergirds a climate-friendly food system.
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If we are going to strengthen and promote a network of regional foodsheds, not to the absolute exclusion of broader trade but with a core value of ensuring stable farm communities in proximity to our cities, we need to rethink how we define a dependable food supply.
Elizabeth McVay Greene: What the Farm Gives: A Morning at the Wholesale Farmers' Market 2010
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If we are going to strengthen and promote a network of regional foodsheds, not to the absolute exclusion of broader trade but with a core value of ensuring stable farm communities in proximity to our cities, we need to rethink how we define a dependable food supply.
Elizabeth McVay Greene: What the Farm Gives: A Morning at the Wholesale Farmers' Market 2010
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With small farmers springing up virtually everywhere and agricultural education now what it is, even northern, cold-climate foodsheds are able to produce remarkable organic vegetables for their communities, twelve months a year.
Elissa Altman: The Perfect Food World and Its Missing Ingredient 2010
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If we are going to promote a network of regional foodsheds with a core value of ensuring stable farm communities in proximity to our cities, we need to rethink how we define a dependable food supply.
Elizabeth McVay Greene: What the Farm Gives: A Morning at the Wholesale Farmers' Market 2010
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Of course, CSAs are just one piece in a patchwork of solutions to reknit regional foodsheds, but more importantly they exemplify the value of community that undergirds a climate-friendly food system.
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Design goals include a far greater localization of our basic needs, from local distributed energy to more localized foodsheds and bioregional watershed management.
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With forums featuring the good food movement's marquee names, including Wendell Berry, Vandana Shiva, Michael Pollan, Marion Nestle and Eric Schlosser, this Alice Waters-sponsored shindig could be the watershed event that puts America's foodsheds on the map.
Kerry Trueman: Slow Food Nation: Taking America Out To The Foodshed 2008
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It also takes, by way of answering the question of what form of agriculture would be most appropriate within these foodsheds, Tudge's (2003: 357) model for a localised, what he called 'Enlightened', agriculture:
Transition Culture 2010
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