toward foodsheds: reimagining food systems in the lake superior watershed
abstract
the lake superior watershed is nested within multiple indigenous territories, two
settler-colonial nation-states, and a globalized capitalist economic system. while water
flows freely, the pursuit of social and ecological transformation is constrained by the
physical and psychological enforcement of human-constructed boundaries. despite these
realities, watersheds are sites of great potential. grounded in specific places while water
flows through to others, watersheds enable multiple streams toward justice and entry points
into food systems transformations. foodsheds, named after watersheds, are overlapping
webs of food relationships. they offer alternatives to the place-less and relation-less
imaginaries of industrial food systems by grounding food communities in the places and
relationships they nourish. [...]