ABSTRACT
Brooklyn, New York is an area of New York City recently known as a hotspot for "hipsters" with their long beards, nerd glasses, throwback fashions, and hyper-specific food preferences. In Julie Guthman's study of organic farming in California, she found that thirty-five percent of the organic farms sold their crops at farmers' markets, indicating that there is a connection between the organic food movement (OFM) and the local food movement (LFM), even if local food is not always organic, and organic food is sometimes shipped long distances. While the LFM and OFM are present across the globe, this chapter focuses on the way these movements have taken place in the United States and how anthropologists have studied the American versions of these food movements. Chad Lavin addressed the distinctions between the OFM and the LFM, arguing that organic agriculture is driven by a concern about alienation in the broad relationship between people and the earth.
