TRUCKEE, Calif. – Most of us unwrap a tuna sandwich, cut into a steak or twirl pasta onto a fork without a second thought. Lunch is a pause in the day — a quick stop between meetings, ski laps or school pickup. Rarely do we picture the fishing vessel miles offshore, the rancher managing pasture rotations or the tangled supply chains that carried each ingredient to our plate.
For Truckee residents Shea Anderson and Mark Zimring, along with Vermont resident Michelle Zackin — founders of Round River Provisions — that journey is the point.
“Food systems are the primary drivers of most of the big environmental problems we have today,” Zimring said…