Transition Land Economies

The transition town movement seems a fine thing, and it's hard not to trip over it everywhere. If we're to take peak oil and the consequent energy descent seriously, then Plan A it seems is business as usual but with a different energy source.  The sceptical transitioner is not prepared to bet their livelihood on that option, and market towns (and inner cities) up and down the town are organising events to look at local growing, increased efficiency and so on.  A really interesting expansion of Plan B would be to think about it in terms of transition land economies - transition town are often surrounded by lots of food growing land after all, and those livelihoods are would to be profoundly affected by transition too.  There's a reasons market towns are called market towns, and a mark of success would be if there wasn't room for the olives any more at farmer's markets.