House, Veronica, authorUtah State University Press, publisher2025-06-262025-06-262025https://hdl.handle.net/10217/241216House explores the intersections between local food movements, sustainability, and civic engagement, emphasizing community connection's vital role in fostering food systems and describing how movements impact community health. The book blends academic rigor and practical insight.--Provided by publisher.Introduction: Ecological Community Writing and the Power of Definitions -- On Lineage and Purpose: A Place to Begin -- Food Rhetorics and a Crisis of Definitions -- What's "Local" About Local Food? Rehinging Words to Meaning -- Crisis and Abundance Rhetorics in Moving People Toward Collaborative Engagement -- Writing Abundant Ecologies: From Theory to Collaborative Local Research -- Ecological Community Writing in an Abundant Foodshed with Constance Gordon -- Abundant Partnership: A Local, Organic Approach to Rhetoric and Writing Studies with Kerry Francis, Tim Francis, and Kelly Zepelin.born digitalbooksengCopyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.All rights reserved. User is responsible for compliance. Please contact University Press of Colorado at https://upcolorado.com/our-books/rights-and-permissions for use information.Communication in ecologyLocal foods -- Social aspectsNatural foods -- Social aspectsTextAccess is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University, and Western Colorado University members only.