site.openhandstore.org Blog

The Future Food Web

May 26, 2009 on 2:23 pm | In Main Category | No Comments

If you have followed this blog at all, you know we are locavores at heart – an easy stance to take in the San Francisco Bay Area – and we have high hopes for a future food system that relies less on industrialization and more on tradition. Wired has an interesting article on the future of food distribution and how small, local farms may benefit from an Internet enabled supply chain. More important than sales may be the impact that the Internet and in particular, social networking sites might play in elevating the profile of local farmers:

 “The potential effect is much bigger than the tons or dollar amounts of food that it impacts because it’s enabling people to know more about where their food comes and rewarding people who are taking those steps,” said Tom Tomich, director of the University of California, Davis Agricultural Sustainability Institute.

You can read the rest of the article, here.

Posted by: Dan