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As promised, I’m actually adding some content to my Local Food Resources pages. It’s not meant to be exhaustive or even necessarily well-rounded, but as I gather a variety of sources for my final project and other readings, I thought it would be nice to produce a page or two of bibliography (ideally annotated, at the very least well-ordered) for others looking to get an idea of what’s going on in the field.
To start, and in the interest of shameless self-promotion, I’ve included two reports I did last semester on different aspects of regional food systems. They can be found on the Local Food Resources page, or the individual reports here and here.
I’ll also soon be posting a PDF spreadsheet of various urban agriculture projects I’m aware of (sorry, creating HTML tables was a huge pain in the ass), as well as in-page lists of readings on various topics.
And as a side note, in the further interest of shameless self-promotion, I will also be creating a Writing Samples page on this site and posting a couple things I’ve done recently. I also consider the entries on this blog to be writing samples, though they may or may not be planning-related.
And finally, I will soon get around to editing and posting the rest of my photos from my January trip to Chicago, including those of the Chicago International Produce Market, my subject of study for the report I’ll be submitting to CMAP in late spring.
Chicago, Not Food: Lincoln Park Bus Stop
More to come, when I find the time!
Well, this is later than intended!
As usual in the perpetual-struggle-against-the-inevitability-of-time that is my life these days, I haven’t gotten ’round to posting things I should. On top of everything else, I’ll be spending several weekends here for a workshop…
New York City, Lower Manhattan
… and thinking a lot about food:
Find the watermelon! (Joy Garden, Chicago)
The latter does not just refer to eating (though there’s been plenty of that). I’ve decided to focus my final project on local food systems, specifically examining methods of distribution (moving food from farm to consumer, with however many steps in between) and ways in which policy (planning!!) can help encourage movement “within the foodshed.” Ultimately the report will focus on implications for Chicago and its surrounding region, as the project will be written for CMAP (Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning), but will draw on literature and examples from other places.
To that end, I have a LOT to learn about this area, and need to keep the resources I gather in good order. In the coming weeks, I intend to post some of these resources online in a blog page, roughly sorted by geographic area and/or subject matter. The intent is not to create a full digital library (and license issues likely prevent me from posting actual documents anyway), but to offer an accessible collection of links about whatever I dig up on the subject that might be of interest. If possible, I will also post my finished report in Spring 2011.
I’ll try to keep the content reasonably updated, with the first steps being making the page and then pledging to update it (see above). In the meantime, much reading to be done!!
City Forward 