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A similar term is foodshed, which is the area where a person or family can obtain locally grown food.

IEEE Spectrum 2010

Joined by organizations like Columbia University's Earth Institute and the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, I have urged that New York designate a "foodshed" consisting of farms in a given radius of the city where growers of healthy food would have special access to city markets and from which government purchasers of food would be required to buy a certain percent of their vegetables, dairy products and other items.

Scott Stringer: Putting Food Policy On The City's Front Burner 2009

On a preliminary basis such a "foodshed" could be set at a 100-200 mile distance; within this area, designated growers of healthy food would be provided special access to New York City food markets and other retail and wholesale outlets, including farmers 'markets.

Scott Stringer: Putting Food Policy On The City's Front Burner 2009

Changing our development policies, monitoring fresh food availability and even creating a "foodshed" are important initiatives, but they will not be enough to on their own to create a healthier, better fed city.

Scott Stringer: Putting Food Policy On The City's Front Burner 2009

Kloppenburg, drawing from the earlier concepts of the bioregional movement (i.e. Sale 1993) and Getz (1991) conceptualised the notion of a 'foodshed', defined by Peters et. al (2008: 2) as "the geographic area from which a population derives its food supply", and perceived these as hybrid social and natural constructs (Feagan 2007: 26).

Transition Culture 2010

The Totnes data could be interpreted as inferring that within the culture of the town, the fact that it still holds regular markets, and still has a strong commercial presence from local growers, means that people feel, on some level, situated within the kind of 'foodshed' that Kloppenburg et. al

Transition Culture 2010

In this regard, as a 'foodshed' it encapsulates the catchment from which the bulk of the town's diet would have 'flowed' into Totnes town.

Transition Culture 2010

The researchers also mapped the existing local "foodshed" in the Charlottesville area, including retailers, farmers 'markets and restaurants.

U.Va. Mobile 2009

Ask Sustainable Connections 'Food & Farming Program manager and Bellingham Farmers Market board member Shonie Schlotzhauer your questions about eating local, knowing your farmer, what's in season and where to find it, what a "foodshed" is, or why food prices are going through the roof.

The Bellingham Herald: Sports News 2009

Joined by organizations like Columbia University's Earth Institute and the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, I have urged that New York designate a "foodshed" consisting of farms in a given radius of the city where growers of healthy food would have special access to city markets and from which government purchasers of food would be required to buy a certain percent of their vegetables, dairy products and other items.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Scott Stringer 2009