Local Foods Glossary
What's the difference between "organic" and "natural"? Find useful, straight-forward definitions to common words and phrases connected to eating and preparing local foods.
Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA)
A system of food sales and distribution that directly connects farms and consumers.
A system of food sales and distribution that directly connects farms and consumers.
Foodshed
A foodshed is everything between where a food is produced and where a food is consumed -- the land it grows on, the routes it travels, the markets it goes through.
A foodshed is everything between where a food is produced and where a food is consumed -- the land it grows on, the routes it travels, the markets it goes through.
Kitchen Mandoline
What is a kitchen mandoline and how do you use it?
What is a kitchen mandoline and how do you use it?
Locavore
Someone who eats exclusively--or at least primarily--from their foodshed.
Someone who eats exclusively--or at least primarily--from their foodshed.
Natural
What does it mean when a food label says "natural"?
What does it mean when a food label says "natural"?
Organic
Find out what "organic" on a food label really means.
Find out what "organic" on a food label really means.