Feedable Cities

Professor Elliott Campbell teaches Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Merced. His recent paper on local food potential was published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.  The “local food” movement has gone beyond a handful of hip, progressive towns to touch nearly every city in America. Farmer’s markets and locally-grown produce are fairly easy to find these days. But even the most devoted locavores have to get some of their diet from beyond the 50-mile radius generally considered the boundary of “local.”