Food’s Missing Tail

The long tail of food has the power to transform our entire food system. It’s diverse, local, unique, and sometimes illegal.

The “short head” and “long tail” of food where the area of each represents an equal volume of production.

Imagine that you could line up every conceivable food production activity and arrange them from most to least productive. On one end we’d see highly productive industrial farms, followed by large family farms, large and medium scale market gardens, hobby farms, CSAs, nurseries, urban agriculture projects, community and backyard gardens – all the way down to growing herbs on windowsills. Each produces food – all of it counts. [Read more…]