An Amber Wave

In growing grain where it has not been grown in living memory RobertsonGoldberg is pushing the boundaries of locavorism, the national movement that obsessively tracks the miles covered in every calorie's journey from earth to mouth, combining elements of environmentalism, survivalism, nutritional fanaticism, common sense and food snobbery As recently as 2005, when the writers Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon tried to live for a year exclusively on food grown near their home in Vancouver, flour was among the most elusive staples; in their book, Plenty, they describe the tedium of separating mouse droppings from the grain in the only sack of wheat they could find within 100 miles. [...] the paradigm shift is already happening, and no one knows it better than Jones, the organizer of the Kneading Conference West.