A Farm on Every Corner: Reimagining America's Food System for the Twenty-First Century

The current wasteful, inefficient, and unsustainable practices in America's food system have us hurtling towards a bleak future.


Instead, A Farm on Every Corner suggests that a radical decentralization and localization of food production and a transformation of how our country grows, ships, eats, and disposes of its food is critical for a more sustainable, profitable, healthier, and tastier future.


From a food forest in Atlanta, to sidewalks in Los Angeles, to the docks of Sitka, Alaska, this book will take you on a journey of what's possible when food meets community. It takes inventory of the current state of our nation's food system and makes the case for why empowering our communities to take back food production from corporations makes us all better off.


Whether you're someone who visits their weekly farmers' market or if you've never given a second thought to how your food got to your plate, this book will show you the potential located down the street and across the country and teach you to reconnect how we eat with where we live. Let's dig in!

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A Farm on Every Corner: Reimagining America's Food System for the Twenty-First Century

The current wasteful, inefficient, and unsustainable practices in America's food system have us hurtling towards a bleak future.


Instead, A Farm on Every Corner suggests that a radical decentralization and localization of food production and a transformation of how our country grows, ships, eats, and disposes of its food is critical for a more sustainable, profitable, healthier, and tastier future.


From a food forest in Atlanta, to sidewalks in Los Angeles, to the docks of Sitka, Alaska, this book will take you on a journey of what's possible when food meets community. It takes inventory of the current state of our nation's food system and makes the case for why empowering our communities to take back food production from corporations makes us all better off.


Whether you're someone who visits their weekly farmers' market or if you've never given a second thought to how your food got to your plate, this book will show you the potential located down the street and across the country and teach you to reconnect how we eat with where we live. Let's dig in!

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A Farm on Every Corner: Reimagining America's Food System for the Twenty-First Century

A Farm on Every Corner: Reimagining America's Food System for the Twenty-First Century

by David A Lange
A Farm on Every Corner: Reimagining America's Food System for the Twenty-First Century

A Farm on Every Corner: Reimagining America's Food System for the Twenty-First Century

by David A Lange

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Overview

The current wasteful, inefficient, and unsustainable practices in America's food system have us hurtling towards a bleak future.


Instead, A Farm on Every Corner suggests that a radical decentralization and localization of food production and a transformation of how our country grows, ships, eats, and disposes of its food is critical for a more sustainable, profitable, healthier, and tastier future.


From a food forest in Atlanta, to sidewalks in Los Angeles, to the docks of Sitka, Alaska, this book will take you on a journey of what's possible when food meets community. It takes inventory of the current state of our nation's food system and makes the case for why empowering our communities to take back food production from corporations makes us all better off.


Whether you're someone who visits their weekly farmers' market or if you've never given a second thought to how your food got to your plate, this book will show you the potential located down the street and across the country and teach you to reconnect how we eat with where we live. Let's dig in!


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781636760803
Publisher: New Degree Press
Publication date: 12/13/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 162
File size: 4 MB

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Song of Sprouts and Steel 13


Part 1: Introduction to the Food System 19


Chapter 1: A Brief History of American

Agriculture and Food Sovereignty 21


Chapter 2: Little Farm, Big Impact: Natural-

Scale Local Agriculture 31


Chapter 3: A Farm on Every Corner:

Agriculture in the Big City 43


Chapter 4: The Art of the Veal: Bringing

Livestock Home 53


Chapter 5: Wild Salmon and the Limits of

Localism 69


Part 2: Transforming the Food Economy 83


Chapter 6: Restaurants at the Human Scale 85


Chapter 7: How the (Veggie) Sausage Gets

Made: Addressing Food Waste from

All Sides 95


Chapter 8: Farm Bills and Dollar Bills:

Financing Small-Scale Agriculture 107


Chapter 9: To Tree or Not to Tree:

"Foodscaping" Our Communities 117


Chapter 10: Reclaiming Seeds and Knowledge in

Indian Country 127


Part 3: Reimagining the American

Food System 139


Chapter 11: A Seat at the (Farm-to-) Table:

Building an Inclusive Future and

Claiming Our Power 141

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