foodshed

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foodshed

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From food + shed, modelled on watershed. Seems to have been coined by American port authority director Walter P. Hedden in 1929.

noun foodsheds

The region that produces the food for a particular population. Trends in Delimitation of Foodsheds. A market such as New York, situated on the seaboard and readily accessible to overseas transportation as well as to domestic rail transportation from all quarters of the continent, finds its foodshed affected by the protective tariff, sanitary and quarantine stan
Similar: food bowl, breadbasket, granary

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noun food-producing region

中文	魚米之鄉 /鱼米之乡 yúmǐzhīxiāng
Français	grenier à blé
Deutsch	Kornkammer
Русский	жи́тница žítnica

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@misc{foodshed_2026,
  title = {foodshed},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/foodshed},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}