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I love quotes that add meaning to my life. Here are a few to live by:

We can dramatically increase global food availability and environmental sustainability by using more of our crops to feed people directly and less to fatten livestock.
—Jonathan A. Foley, director of the Institute on the Environment, U of MN

Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.
—Michael Pollan

Cooking is at once child’s play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.
—Craig Claiborne

People who eat according to the rules of a traditional food culture are generally healthier than those of us eating a modern Western diet of processed food.
—Michael Pollan

Is Localizing America’s Food System Possible?

A recent University of California, Merced study by J. Elliott Campbell and Andrew Zumkehr found that local food has the potential to meet 90% of the national food demand. Their study examined every acre of active farmland in the United States to calculate the potential of feeding a balanced diet to people living within a 100-mile radius. This meant reimaging how each acre of farmland was used, and converting the land used to grow corn and soybeans into land used to grow vegetables. On average, 90% of Americans’ food needs could be sourced locally; however, there are some cities, such as New York City that can only access 30% of its food from local sources. To actually put Campbell and Zumkehr’s study into practice would not be easy. In fact, it would require a complete overhaul to our economic system and agricultural policy. However, the study illustrates the potential of American farmland to theoretically feed a majority of citizens locally. In addition, it opens the conversation about rethinking land use altogether—imagine how much food could be produced locally if we converted asphalt, brown fields, and lawns into vegetable gardens! Read Dan Nosowitz’s great synopsis of the study HERE, and access the full study HERE to learn more.

Posted: 6-22-2015

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