Amid ongoing global crisis, which perhaps as it pertains to us in the US is ticking up, we are effected by the fallout. One effect, as some who are generally less focused on the food system are observing, is that food prices are increasing, while simultaneously there are threats of shortages. The way I observe it is another reason for shifting to more regionally self reliant food systems, which are inherently more immune to outside catastrophe, namely because they use far less fuel.