Local produce traveling a short distance with low carbon emission / Photo by Willow-Creek Feighery
Terroir is putting food in a cultural context, playing off of flawed human memory, halcyon, affected by cultural normalities, culture dictating how gender and laboral roles are perceived and administered. These sociologic ideas merge with more solid ideas of earth, balance, interconnectedness and serendipity of soil science; pH, nutrient availability, human-impacted soils/environments affecting what is grown, leading back to ask: can have terroir if humans have too far removed the food from its original context? How far is too far?
