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Freegans in NYC have gotten quite a bit of press over the past years, especially the group led by Adam Weissman. See, for example, Frito Lay's advertisement “We Grow the Best Snacks on Earth” depicting a small-scale potato farm where what looks like family members collect potatoes in baskets and place them in a burlap sack that is standing in the grass right next to the mounded rows of potato plants.ģ. We can see the market adjusting in the advertising campaigns of global food industries.

The evils of our industrialized food system have been portrayed in films such as “The Future of Food,” “The Global Banquet,” and “Our Daily Bread,” just to mention a few. Oregon State University's Rural Studies Initiative, Center for the Humanities, and Department of Anthropology provided necessary support.Ģ. I wish to thank Margaret Mathewson, Carole Counihan, and the anonymous reviewers of Food and Foodways for making this a better paper, and also the freegans and back-to-the-landers who shared their words and food with me. Oregon State University's Rural Studies Initiative, Center for the Humanities, and Department of Anthropology provided necessary support.ġ. Gibson-Graham and the Community Economies Collective.

In this article, I describe the foodways of these two groups and suggest ways in which they might help articulate a post-capitalist food economy, using the work of J.

Subsistence agriculture provides the inspiration for back-to-the-landers while freegans are akin to modern day foragers, living off the waste of others and on what they can gather in the wild. During an assessment of food needs and habits in rural Western Oregon, back-to-the-landers and freegans emerged as two groups that resist the global industrial food system by tapping into pre-capitalist subsistence patterns.