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Tom McDougall
Tom McDougall is the founder of 4P Foods, a D.C.-based food hub that sources from environmentally responsible family farmers and works to reconnect the community with their local foodshed. “Why are local and regional foods the ‘alternative’ instead of a mainstay of food systems in this country?” Philip Ackerman-Leist poses this question in the preface of his book, Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable, and Secure Food Systems. He goes on to say that, in order to find the answer, “…as with most agricultural endeavors, it takes a little digging to get started.” Today’s food system, according to