Edges of Bounty

The common human desire to personally participate in the production of some or all of their food or drink. Intentional practitioners of edibilism, including gardeners, farmers, butchers, canners, wine makers, fishers, gatherers, and hunters, are edibilists.

The term edibilism and the soft tenets that have adhered to it were created during the research for Edges of Bounty: Adventures in the Edible Valley. Edibilism unites seemingly disparate foodways—hunting, cultivation, feasting, gathering, preservation, and fishing—under the rubric of encounter, of immediacy, of participation. Edibilism seeks to replace Industry with industry, a word that once meant diligence and skill. It is agrarian, futurist, and communitarian. Its sole measure is the human hand.

“Edges of Bounty is a celebration of local food and the quirky people who farm it, fish it, hunt it, and transform it. Read this book and get inspired to join the edibilist revolution!”

—Sandor Ellix Katz, author of The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America's Underground Food Movements

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