Locavores

= proponents of local food provision

The website of the San Francisco–based Locavores is at http://www.locavores.com

More Information

1. U.S. status report at ttp://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/may2008/db20080520_920283.htm?
2. “The 100-Mile Diet Challenge,” at http://www.100milediet.org (accessed 14 January 2009)

Critical discussion: http://etc.technologyandculture.net/2009/07/19/local-food-and-the-problem-of-public-authority/

For scholarly analysis of the foodshed concept, see

1. Jack Kloppenburg Jr., J. Hendrickson, and G. W. Stevenson, “Coming into the Foodshed,” Agriculture and Human Values 13 (1996): 33–42;
2. Thomas A. Lyson, Civic Agriculture: Reconnecting Farm, Food, and Community (Medford, Mass., 2004), 107n;
3. Elizabeth Barham, David Lind, and Lewis Jett, “The Missouri Regional Cuisines Project: Connecting to Place in the Restaurant,” in Urban Place: Reconnecting with the Natural World, ed. Peggy F. Barlett (Cambridge, Mass., 2005), 145–47.