Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction to Food Systems
• Local Food Systems
• The Business of Food and Farming
• Values in Food Systems
• The Agricultural Workforce
• Farming and the Environment
• Climate Change and Agriculture
• Energy, Food, and Farms
• Access to Healthy Food
• Farm to School
• Agritourism and On-Farm Marketing
• Food Safety from Farm to Fork
• The Next Generation of Farmers
• Maintaining Farms and Farmland for the Future
• Improving Food Systems
• Notes
• Figure and Map Credits
• Index

About the Author

Lisa Chase is the natural resources specialist at University of Vermont Extension and the director of the Vermont Tourism Research Center.

Vern Grubinger is an agriculture specialist with University of Vermont Extension and coordinator of the USDA’s Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program.

Reviews

Chase and Grubinger bring valuable clarity and insight to the inherent complexity of contemporary food systems. Anyone who wants to truly understand how these systems work—or don't work—should read this book."" - Ben Hewitt, author of The Town That Food Saved