> And for cities of a certain size, "buying local" is an impossibility anyways. I live in New York City. The land required to feed us would stretch hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of miles around... where there are already smaller towns and suburbs that mostly fill the space. Which is why we source our food from all over the country and world.
I’m also in the city and there are plenty of neighborhood CSAs always looking for new members. When the pandemic hit I found Chef Collective [1] which previously was supplying restaurants and was quickly able to switch to home delivery within a week or two of their commercial supply chain being disrupted.
Sure, we’re not going to get, say, local couscous and olive oil. But there is certainly a lot of local farmland that can feed the city.
I’m also in the city and there are plenty of neighborhood CSAs always looking for new members. When the pandemic hit I found Chef Collective [1] which previously was supplying restaurants and was quickly able to switch to home delivery within a week or two of their commercial supply chain being disrupted.
Sure, we’re not going to get, say, local couscous and olive oil. But there is certainly a lot of local farmland that can feed the city.
[1] https://chefcollectivenyc.com/