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  • From: Colehour Arden <cjarden@ucdavis.edu>
  • To: tjakin@pssci.umass.edu
  • Cc: sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu, sustag@beta.tricity.wsu.edu
  • Subject: Re: local food securtiy & the concept of a "foodshed"
  • Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 15:26:15 -0800 (PST)

On Fri, 31 Mar 1995 tjakin@pssci.umass.edu wrote:

> Fred Kirschenmann, an organic grain farmer from North Dakota, spoke
> this past week at a Northeast Region SARE Ch. 3-sponsored
> conference on sustainable agriculture. He touched on the subject
> of local agriculture, local food security and the concept of a
> "foodshed" (conceptual equivalent of a watershed). Could someone
> point out further reading on the "foodshed" concept?

Tom,

Arthur Getz wrote a short article on this topic in the Oct, 1991
Permaculture Activist #24 (pages 26-7).
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Good luck,

Colehour Arden

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