What is (a) Foodshed?
Do you know where your food comes from?
The concept of a foodshed, like a watershed, describes how the flow of food from the earth to your table connects a local ecosystem of people and other living things. As a cooperative of regenerative farms, we believe that the act of eating food can mutually benefit everyone (and everything) in our community:
Regenerative farming
The soil grows our food; we use practices that improve its long-term health.
Agricultural livelihoods
Farmers and farmworkers feed us; we honor their labor with fair prices and just wages.
Food as medicine
We make local, nutritious produce accessible; eaters make our work possible.
Why Foodshed produce?
When you eat local food grown in nutrient-rich soil by skilled farmers, you’re nourishing more than your body. That soil sustains the environment in which you live, work, and play; it cleans the air and fights climate change by storing carbon. Those farmers are your neighbors, reinvesting their earnings and contributing to our community. When our foodshed is strong, more people have access to the medicine of healthy produce.
Towards a just food system
The way most of us eat is not good for us, the exploited workers, or the exhausted soil. Our mission is to strengthen the knowledge, resources, and relationships necessary to replace this system. There’s only one way to make it happen: together.
