foodshed

n. the area which can, or is sufficient to, provide food for a given location. Subjects: English, Agriculture, Environment, Food & Drink

Editorial Note: Related terms are viewshed and walkshed.

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Citations: 1929 W.P. Hedden How Great Cities Are Fed @ Journal of Business of the University of Chicago (Apr. 2, 1930) Joseph G. Knapp vol. 3, no. 2, p. 263: Watersheds, Milksheds, and Foodsheds. 1933 Martin D. Stevers Steel Trails: The Epic of the Railroads p. 92: When the population grows to where it eats all that such a “food-shed” can grow, there you have your limit to size. 1970 J. F. Riegelhaupt; S. Forman Journal of Economic History (Mar.) “Bodo Was Never Brazilian: Economic Integration and Rural Development among a Contemporary Peasantry” vol. 30, no. 1, p. 111: According to a study undertaken in the Recife foodshed area…,the lower 58 percent of families spent approximately 70 percent of their income on food. 2002 Kim Severson San Francisco Chronicle (California) (Aug. 14) “Heart & soul of an inn”: But where Waters’ foodshed stretches as far south as Chino ranch near San Diego, Grade’s ingredients are gathered from at most a 15-mile radius or no more than a half hour from the lodge. Much of it comes from people she considers neighbors and friends. Plus, Grade hunts and fishes and forages herself. 2006 Michael Pollan Mother Jones (May) “No Bar Code”: He went on to explain that Polyface does not ship long distance, does not sell to supermarkets, and does not wholesale its food. All of the meat and eggs that Polyface produces is eaten within a few dozen miles or, at the most, half a day’s drive of the farm—within the farm’s “foodshed.”

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