[Lapg] NEW BOOK /Rebuilding the Foodshed, How to Create Local, Sustainable, and Secure Food Systems, by Philip Ackerman-Leist

[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

Rebuilding the Foodshed
How to Create Local, Sustainable, and Secure Food Systems
by Philip Ackerman-Leist
http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/rebuilding_the_foodshed:paperback#
Foreword by Deborah Madison

"Now that it's not just acceptable but fashionable to write about local 
food systems, lots of people do it. Few pay close attention, however, as 
Ackerman-Leist does in this volume, to the variously shaped components 
successful local systems will require and the multiple efforts around 
the country working to create them. A wise, informed, and thoroughly 
useful book."
—Joan Gussow, author of Growing, Older and This Organic Life

A Community Resilience Guide

Droves of people have turned to local food as a way to retreat from our 
broken industrial food system. From rural outposts to city streets, they 
are sowing, growing, selling, and eating food produced close to home—and 
they are crying out for agricultural reform. All this has made "local 
food" into everything from a movement buzzword to the newest darling of 
food trendsters.

But now it's time to take the conversation to the next level. That's 
exactly what Philip Ackerman-Leist does in Rebuilding the Foodshed, in 
which he refocuses the local-food lens on the broad issue of rebuilding 
regional food systems that can replace the destructive aspects of 
industrial agriculture, meet food demands affordably and sustainably, 
and be resilient enough to endure potentially rough times ahead.

Changing our foodscapes raises a host of questions. How far away is 
local? How do you decide the size and geography of a regional foodshed? 
How do you tackle tough issues that plague food systems large and 
small—issues like inefficient transportation, high energy demands, and 
rampant food waste? How do you grow what you need with minimum 
environmental impact? And how do you create a foodshed that's resilient 
enough if fuel grows scarce, weather gets more severe, and traditional 
supply chains are hampered?

Showcasing some of the most promising, replicable models for growing, 
processing, and distributing sustainably grown food, this book points 
the reader toward the next stages of the food revolution. It also covers 
the full landscape of the burgeoning local-food movement, from rural to 
suburban to urban, and from backyard gardens to large-scale food 
enterprises.


About the Author

Philip Ackerman-Leist
Philip Ackerman-Leist, author of Rebuilding the Foodshed and Up Tunket 
Road, is a professor at Green Mountain College, where he established the 
college's farm and sustainable agriculture curriculum and is director of 
the Green Mountain College Farm & Food Project. He also founded and 
directs the college's Masters in Sustainable Food Systems (MSFS), the 
nation's first online graduate program in food systems, featuring 
applied comparative research of students' home bioregions. He and his 
wife, Erin, farmed in the South Tirol region of the Alps and North 
Carolina before beginning their sixteen-year homesteading and farming 
venture in Pawlet, Vermont. ...

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