A Foodshed

A foodshed is the geographical region where the food for a particular population is produced. Like a watershed it is used to describe how food flows within an area from where it is produced to the place it is consumed. It includes the land where the food is grown, transportation from farm to table and the household it ends up in. A foodshed is a hybrid social and natural concept.

The term foodshed was first used in 1929 by WP Hedden in a book he wrote called "How Great Cities Are Fed".  Hedden defined the foodshed in 1929 as the "dikes and dams" guiding the flow of food from the producer to consumer. He said "that the barriers which guide and control movements of foodstuffs are more economical than physical."

Rochester's foodshed is truly global. Last time I went to the supermarket I was able to buy