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Locavore U.S.A.: How a local-food economy is changing one community, a chapter from the book Change Comes to Dinner Kindle Edition

by Katherine Gustafson (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
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In 1950, at least 70 percent of Montana's food was grown in Montana. Many states used to have robust local-food economies, but that has changed drastically around the country in recent decades. National-scale food businesses beat out community-oriented small and medium-sized operations, laying waste to the infrastructure that once supported thriving local-food economies.
There is rising interest in again making food a local affair. But jump-starting a locavore economy is a tricky business. To cut down the massive distances that the vast majority of food eaten in the United States travels before it reaches dinner plates, communities must work to nurture "a cascading effect" by which each piece of a local-food economy enables and then reinforces the others to create a robust, cost-effective network.
Locavore U.S.A. introduces readers to some brave, hard-working souls in western Montana who are building their own such network piece by piece. In the process they are uncovering a key way to transform our industrially dominated food system.

The following ebook is taken from the book Change Comes to Dinner.

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    St. Martin's Griffin
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    April 24, 2012
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B007KJHAT8
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ St. Martin's Griffin (April 24, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 24, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 540 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 25 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 20 ratings

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Katherine Gustafson

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KATHERINE GUSTAFSON is an award-winning writer, journalist and editor whose articles and essays have been published in numerous print and online media, including The Christian Science Monitor, The Huffington Post, Slate, and Johns Hopkins Magazine. Her first book, 'Change Comes to Dinner," about good news in sustainable food, was published in 2012 by Macmillan. She lives with her husband and daughter in the Washington, DC, area.

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3.9 out of 5 stars
3.9 out of 5
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darswords
4.0 out of 5 stars Everyone Should Join in This Discussion
Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2015
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This was an interesting read. Rather than a how-to farm like I have been reading a lot of lately, this was about how to make the urban life work for communities. The author doesn't offer hard answers to the questions of how to live a more healthy lifestyle, eat organic, chemical-free foods, and try to make money for your community. Instead, she takes us to a couple communities that are trying to do that with food co-ops and community manufacturing plants.

The fun part about this book wasn't due to what I read. It was how I read it. I just picked up a Kindle Fire 6 HD that has text-to-speech. Oh. My. God! If I thought the 2nd Generation Kindles were good, this wipes them out of the water. I could set the speed of the narrator, who sounded like a real person. And I found that you could download other voices like those with British or Australian accents, male and female. I can hardly wait to use these. And you can download other languages so when I want to play with Spanish or German I will have someone to pronounce these out to me in story form. Seems like a great way to improve language skills.

Anyway, back to the book. I recommend this book to everyone. This is a conversation we all need to get involved in. How healthy is it to eat food shipped from across the continent or even from around the globe. How healthy is it for our planet to keep moving food in this fashion. It is a short read but powerful.
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Emmy
3.0 out of 5 stars vary informed
Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2013
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I like it . I wish it should a few pictures of what they are taking about some times. thanks hops this was help full.
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Jennifer Lehmann
3.0 out of 5 stars Cleaning up the Kindle
Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2021
This slight ebook popped to the top of my TBR list as I was organizing my Kindle lately and realizing it was actually just a chapter from a larger book and it was about things happening in Western Montana. This was interesting, and the ideas of the book as a whole is interesting, but the fact that this chapter covers Western Montana did not actually bode well for it. Gustafson takes on a kitschy, rural tone to discuss the Flathead Valley. While she talks about the distance from Missoula as a problem, she never once mentions Kalispell. But the roundup of what is happening to provide local processing and distribution of food products is interesting.
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Unique
5.0 out of 5 stars You can't have too many recipes
Reviewed in Canada on January 27, 2017
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You can't have too many recipes. They are always a source for ideas and tips.
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