permaculture

[Colehour Arden <cjarden@ucdavis.edu>]

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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