‘The physical distance that has to be travelled by food from afar is difficult. But it’s less challenging than the social and entrepreneurial distance that has to be travelled by food from down the road.’ —Wayne Roberts Field notes this week:It Takes Two To Tango Boosting the amount of local food that’s eaten is not as simple as persuading more people…
Month: February 2016
Region: Self-Sufficient
‘Instead of asking if we can feed the world, we need to ask if we can nourish the world.’ -Wayne Roberts Field notes this week: Feeding the world one region at a time If you Google “can we feed the world,” you will get 721 million results in less than .83 of a second. That tells me a lot of people have…
City and Country Farms Can Grow Infrastructure
‘The old saying that money doesn’t grow on trees is now totally obsolete.’ —Wayne Roberts Field notes from this week Please stay with me through five outlandish and seemingly unrelated lead-off statements, because in fewer than three pages, you will see some powerful connections to the future of food, farming and cities.1. One of the great fallacies of our age…