SF sustainable with local food

Of course, it helps to live on California's coast when one determines the sufficiency of "local" food production. Here is coverage from the San Francisco Business Times on the study by American Farmland Trust about San Francisco and its local food supply:

As Slow Food Nation, a festival dedicated to healthy eating practices, kicks off in San Francisco today, the American Farmland Trust wants to remind dwellers of this city that unlike most Americans, people here can feasibly buy all their produce from farms within a 100 mile radius.

That distinction is based on the idea that the more local food is, the better.

“No place in the United States, and perhaps in the world is as blessed as San Francisco by an amazing cornucopia of products grown nearby,” said Ed Thompson, California director and senior associate of the AFT, who helped write a study called Think Globally-Eat Locally: San Francisco Foodshed Assessment. “But, the answer to the question is a qualified yes because there are challenges to increase both the production, marketing and consumption of local food.”

Here is the San Franciso "Foodshed" report by American Farmland Trust. As far as I can tell, the take home message is - "We can eat local and the rest of America can't."