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This fancipants food is indeed "backyard produce that has more in common with designer boutiques than the local farm stand".
All reminds me of Marie-Antoinette dressing up as a shepherdess:
http://www.postershop.com/Delort-C/Delort-C-Marie-Antoinette-Depicted-at...
Let them eat oregano.
Still, it's interesting that an increasing number of millionaires are following Rainwater's and Simmons' leads in establishing their ability to grow at least part of their own food.
http://www.energybulletin.net/11695.html
The Rainwater Prophecy (December, 2005)
We need to improve the level of redundancy in our current system to cope with outages -this is what the old 'victory gardens' where all about. If I where to design a technical solution with no redundancy in it my job would be on the line PDQ.
So IMO it's close to a scandal that we are applying 'just in time' delivery methodology to our food system in search for additional profit -I'm afraid it will probably take a large number of the population in a major city dying of starvation for us to see the error of our ways on this one.
In the meantime I will keep a very large sack of rice handy 'just in case', I wouldn't like to be roaming the streets and hedges looking for witchity-grubs come the 'great shelf emptying...'
Nick.