Hardwick
sastyk | October 19, 2010Part I : Defining a functional local food system
We got a supermarket in the springtime, and much has been made of that in my area. Many of the area's people rhapsodized about it - one woman told me she'd been waiting 15 years. It is about 8 miles from my house (compared to 13 to the nearest one before), in a town that is making the shift from rural to bedroom suburb, in an area that isn't quite ready for outer bedroom suburbs.
Before the store opened there was much talk about how our area had been and would no longer be a "food desert." This term means an area where there simply isn't…