Check out these articles on Chicagoland foodshed research done by University of Chicago. The research group, Feeding the City (http://feedingthecity.uchicago.edu/) is headed by Pamela Martin and Todd Schuble. As reported by esri.com it is possible to feed all of Chicago on locally grown food.
"What they found was surprising. The foodshed wasn't really that large. An 80-mile buffer around Chicago encompassed sufficient land to adequately feed the city's inhabitants. Many areas designated as high-yield farmland were already being farmed. "We weren't looking at having to plow under tracts of homes in order to feed people," said Schuble. "We were using already cultivated land for our model.""
ERSI links:
http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0911/feeding-chicago.html
http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0911/making-connections.html
University of Chicago links:
http://feedingthecity.uchicago.edu/?q=node/133
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