Reroute

Where Black Rock City's food comes from, how it gets there, what it costs in money, time, freight carbon and water, which camp receives it, and whether any of that is moving year over year. Two maps, one trace, one ledger.
v0.4 · design

Plan → source → coordinate

Size a camp kitchen for the week, and this works out what to buy, which local farms should supply it and why, how to consolidate the pickups, who to contact, and what it does to footprint, cost, organic share and waste. Built for the crew doing the sourcing: a plan you can act on, not a chart. All farms, prices and contacts are synthetic.

Camp size

People fed 100

Headcount the kitchen serves, 10 to 200.

Days 7

Build week through strike.

Waste buffer 8%

Extra bought over what gets eaten.

Storage & transport

Cold capacity 2,700 kg

Reefer and ice, 0 to 4 °C. Set 0 for no reefer. Binding constraint on fresh food.

Cool storage 800 kg

Shaded or root store, 7 to 12 °C. Keeps tolerant items off the reefer.

Refrigerated transport

Farm-to-playa cold chain. Caps how far a perishable can travel.

Menu & sourcing

Menu

Sets the food mix the camp buys.

Source for

What the plan optimises when it picks farms.

Constraints & allergens

First three reshape the buy. Nut-free rides as an order-sheet note.

The week, in numbers

What the week needs, by food type

Storage · does the fresh food fit, by store?

The dance · how the four priorities trade off for this camp

Same requirement, sourced four ways. Lower is better for transport and cost; higher is better for organic. No single column wins all three, which is the point: pick the priority that fits what this camp cares about, then tune the menu and cold capacity until the plan sits where you want it. Your current choice is highlighted.

What to get, and from whom

How to run it · consolidated pickups

Who to contact · order sheet (copy-paste ready)


    
Contacts are synthetic. Replace each farm with the real operation from the USDA Organic INTEGRITY
      Database and the AMS Local Food Directories before any outreach. This is a coordination scaffold, not a directory.

  








  

    
Food type · click a type to follow it through both maps

    

    

  


  

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Where it comes from · 100 mi foodshed

      
      

    

    

      
Where it goes · Black Rock City

      
      

        
        Standard BRC layout: pentagon trash fence, the Man at centre, Temple and open playa above, Center Camp at 6:00, arc from 2:00 round to 10:00, radials every 15 minutes. Camps sit at their real clock-and-street addresses. Node area ∝ meals. The map is rotated, as the official one is: 12:00 is not north. Unlike the foodshed map beside it, this one is a schematic and not georeferenced: BRC's street radii and city bearing are surveyed per season and this tool does not carry that survey.
      

    

  


  
Impact of what is currently selected

  


  

    

    

  







  

    
Lot register · click a row to trace it

    

    
A lot is one traceable consignment: one producer, one category, one camp, one delivery window, one route. The trace id is what would be written on the box.

  

  







  

    
Why this tab exists

    

      Storage is what decouples harvest timing from delivery timing, which makes it the precondition
      for the consolidation finding on the Ledger tab. You can only aggregate camp orders into one full load if
      something can hold the harvest until that load is full. A foodshed with no cold storage cannot consolidate
      perishables at any price, and no amount of freight arithmetic changes that. Three of this set's producers
      have no on-farm cold storage, which forces their harvest onto a same-day dedicated run and therefore onto
      the losing side of the crossover before a single routing decision is made.
    

  

  

  

    
Capacity against demand, by delivery window

    
    

  

  

    
Facilities

    

  

  

    
Producers with no cold storage on the farm

    

    
Cold storage at the farm is a cheaper intervention than any change to the trucking, and it is
      completely invisible in a food-miles argument. It is also the one intervention here that keeps working
      after the event is over.

  

  

    
Shelf life against how long the chain actually holds a lot

    

  







  

    
Assumptions you can turn off

    

      

        
        
        
Costing volunteer time at zero is a choice, and it is the choice that most flatters the direct-from-farm route. Drag it and watch the direct lots move.

      

      

        
        
        
Placeholder. A real figure needs a regional input-output study, and the whole local-economic-impact column is only as good as this one slider.

      

    

  

  

  

    
By category · local chain versus incumbent chain

    

    
gCO2e/kg is freight only. A category where transport is a small share of total footprint cannot be made good or bad by a routing decision. See DESIGN.md section 4.4.

  

  

    
Crossover · at what order size does the short chain win on freight

    
categoryproducer

    
    

  







  

    
Series · every year carries its own status

    

    
2024 is reconstructed, 2025 is partially measured, 2026 is a target. None of the three is a clean measurement, and a trend drawn through three different epistemic statuses is not a trend. The status column is the point of this table.

  

  

    

      
Local share of food mass

      
    

    

      
Regional economic activity from food spend

      
    

  

  

  

    
What has to happen for this to become a real series

    
    
      
  • A demand profile collected from participating camps before the season, not reconstructed after it.
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  • Purchase records against the incumbent baseline, aggregated at three camps or more so no camp's budget is exposed.
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  • Recovery and compost mass weighed with a stated method, so the 2025 figure has a denominator.
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  • The same method applied twice. One season is a snapshot; the value is entirely in the second one.
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Freight and economic coefficients

    

  

  

    
Claims this tool rests on

    

    
Full records in projects/brc-foodshed.context.json. The evidence ledger projects/brc-foodshed.evidence.md is not written yet, and writing it gates every outward claim.

  

  

    
Method, stated plainly

    
    
      
  • Dedicated legs (a farm pickup run) are charged at the whole vehicle, round trip, then divided across everything on board. That is why a small direct lot looks expensive per kilogram: the van comes back empty either way.
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  • Shared legs (a consolidated refrigerated load, the gate-to-camp run) are charged by mass share.
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  • Both chains share the last legs. Reno or Fernley to the gate, and the gate to a camp address. Local sourcing does not remove them.
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  • Producer-to-hub distance is estimated as producer-to-gate minus hub-to-gate, floored at 25 km, because the hubs sit on the way. Replace with real road routing.
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  • Water is consumptive litres per kilogram and is reported with the basin named, because a litre consumed in a closed basin does not come back.
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