What defines a Food Production Community?
There are two main types of food production communities—those who identify as being part of a ‘local’ or geographic food community, and those who identify more with a certain type of production. For example, if a producer sells at a farmers’ market, or supplies a local restaurant with her product, she might consider her food community to be the local/geographic network of diversified food producers, for example “Bay Area Farmers Market Community.” Alternatively, a producer might identify more closely with method of production or the same type of food, for example Estonia’s “Dried and Smoked Flounder Producers” community or the USA’s “American Raw Milk Cheese Producers” community.
