b'Some 600,000 Americans now belong to some 7,000 CSAs, with a strong surge in interest this season due to COVID-driven changes in shopping. 7In 2019, there were 8,600 farmers markets in the U.S., up from 2,400 in 2000. This growth is not merely an expression of the shopping prefer-ences of todays urban and suburban elites; it points towards the most fundamental of structural changes in food systems and local economies.If the need to relocalize the food supply was not widely apparent prior to the pandemic, it is now, as supply chain disruptions result in millions of gallons of milk being dumped daily and traffic jams at food banks around the country. In response to these disruptions, we can double down on the speed, power and scale of factory food production. We can call in the national guard. We can import a little less apple juice from China. 8These are necessary, immediate responses. But we need to go further. We need to address the underlying vulnerabilities of a system that was designed not to grow healthy food for the local populace, but to produce prodigious quantities of cheap agricultural commodities for export. The next 50 years will be the epoch when diversity, decentralization, deceleration, demilitarization and disintermediation come to the fore, not as replacements for the industrial-strength efficiencies of globaliza-tion, but as vital components of relocalization. The thing is, we were shutting down long before the pandemic-induced Shut Down.7 As per Guillermo Payet at localharvest.org. 8 Some 60% of apple juice consumed in the U.S. is imported from China. From 1970-2005, total U.S. imports of apple juice increased from 27 million gallons to 428 million gallons. From 1995-2005, U.S. imports of apple juice from China increased from 2 million gallons to 253 million gallons. (Fonsah and Muhammad, Journal of Food Distribution Research, March 2008) 19'