Local : The New Face of Food and Farming in America.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gayeton, Douglas.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Local

Place of Publication:

New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2014.

Summary:

Combining stunning visuals with insights and a lexicon of more than 200 agricultural terms explained by today's thought leaders, Local showcases and explores one of the most popular environmental trends: rebuilding local food movements.When Douglas Gayeton took his young daughter to see the salmon run--a favorite pastime growing up in Northern California--he was devastated to find that a combination of urban sprawl, land mismanagement, and pollution had decimated the fish population.The discovery set Gayeton on a journey in search of sustainable solutions. He traveled the country, photographing and learning the new language of sustainability from today's foremost practitioners in food and farming, including Alice Waters, Wes Jackson, Carl Safina, Temple Grandin, Paul Stamets, Patrick Holden, Barton Seaver, Vandana Shiva, Dr. Elaine Ingham, and Joel Salatin, as well as everyday farmers, fishermen, and dairy producers.Local: The New Face of Food and Farming blends their insights with stunning collage-like information artworks and Gayeton's Lexicon of Sustainability, which defines and de-mystifies hundreds of terms like "food miles," "locavore," "organic," "grassfed" and "antibiotic free." In doing so, Gayeton helps people understand what they mean for their lives. He also includes "eco tips" and other information on how the sustainable movement affects us all every day.Local: The New Face of Food and Farming in America educates, engages, and inspires people to pay closer attention to how they eat, what they buy, and where their responsibility begins for creating a healthier, safer food system in America.

Contents:

Intro

Dedication

Contents

Our Agreement

A Road to Damascus Moment

The Power of Words

Part I: The Local Food Movement

Food Miles

Terroir

Kevin And Nancy Lunny's Barbecued Drakes Bay Oysters

A New Marshall Plan, or Economies of Community

The Locavore

Know your Farmer

Eating in Season

Is Athens, Georgia, the New Local?

Building Infrastructure, or How the Roto-Fingers® Pea-Bean Sheller Will Save the World

Farmers' Markets

Community-Supported Agriculture

Food Deserts and Corner Stores

Food Hubs and The Art of Cooperative Distribution

The New Main Street, or PIE=COMMUNITY

Miss Deborah's Pielab Apple Pie

Nearly Local: The Story of Connected Markets

Part II: Certification

Organic

Fair Trade vs. Direct Trade

GMOs

Local First, Certification Second

Part III: Unconventional Agriculture

Seeds

Biodiversity vs. Monoculture

Soil Fertility

Biodynamics

Permaculture

Unconventional

Beneficials

Appropriate Technology

Identity-Preserved Grains

Asphalt Agriculture

Dellaragione Minestra

Part IV: Livestock

Grass Farming

Grass Fed

Pasture-Raised

Hatcheries and Feed

Humane Treatment

Antibiotic-Free

Humane Slaughter

Part V: Fisheries

Traceability

Mariculture and Aquaculture

Part VI: Food Is Our Future and Our Past

The Politics of Food

Food is Culture

Edible Education

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Part VII: The New Food Economy

The Real Cost of Cheap Food

Food Waste

Water Stewardship

Land Stewardship

What is Sustainability?

Afterword: The End (or the Beginning)

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780062267641

0062267647

OCLC:

877895559