Local Expert Describes and Advocates Local Food Shed

"Like a watershed, a foodshed is the geographical region surrounding a community within which the food consumed in the community is grown and processed. The suppliers in the foodshed and the people in the community distributing and consuming the food, taken together, make up a regional food system.
"Can it work? The most pervasive impediment to developing sustainable, regional food systems is conventional wisdom which 'knows' that local food systems cannot work because 'the cost of food under a local regional system is so much higher than the existing global, industrial alternative, that consumers would not buy local items.'
"It is true that most consumers will not pay premium prices just for local food. However, years of research have failed to uncover even one study demonstrating that the cost of local food is inherently more expensive than the industrial global alternative. "

Think about The Triad as a focal point, then radiate out about 200 miles. Moore County is in that food shed.
More on this globally, nutritionally important issue in coming posts. . .