Explore your community's potential to grow food locally.
Getting Started
Click a region on the map to explore its communities. Then select a community to see detailed foodshed analysis, expansion models, and site-level assessments.
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Your Space
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About Your Site
What's your goal?
What do you want to grow?
Where is your space?
Skill Level
Family Members
Quick Questions
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Best Options for Your Space
Key Numbers
Recommended Crops
Select your Community
Click a region on the map, then choose a community to see its food growing potential.
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Community Food Production Simulator
Model how this community could feed itself using local land. Pick a strategy and hit Simulate — adjust the settings below to change the parameters.
Pick the nearest land — shortest drive from table to farm.
Local food target
What share of calories should come from local land?
Hours per person per week
Fewer hours means more people needed to hit the target.
Results
How this strategy performed against the community's food needs.
Population-
Caloric Output-
Target Achieved-
Parcels & Hexes-
Total Acres-
People Needed-
Dig into the numbers — land efficiency, labor hours, and how production is distributed across farm types.
Demand
Total calories the community needs per year, based on population and the Peters et al. baseline of 2,150 kcal/person/day.
Total kcal Need-
Local Target-
Strategy Performance: -
How efficiently this strategy used land and labor to reach the calorie target.
Calories per Acre-
Calories per Labor Hour-
Tier Diversity (Shannon)-
Labor Breakdown
Total labor hours per year and how they split across farm types. Smaller operations need more hours per calorie; larger farms are more efficient but need skilled workers.
Total Hours/Year-
kcal per Labor Hour-
Hours by farm type:
Farm Type Distribution
How many parcels of each type were activated. C1 = home gardens, C2 = market gardens, C3 = smallholds, C4 = farms, C5 = anchor farms.
Compare All Strategies
Run all 8 strategies side-by-side with the same parameters to see which uses the least land, fewest people, or creates the most resilient system.
Strategy Scorecard
All 8 strategies ranked by composite score.
Share Food
Community food sharing and coordination tools are coming soon.