Food production is one of the sectors the Asset Map sorts places into, and it sits at the upstream end of every other one. A grocery store, a restaurant and a food bank all depend on it, but none of them belong to it. Drawing that line matters on a map: without it, a region with a dense cluster of supermarkets reads as food-rich even when almost nothing in it is grown nearby.
Underneath the sector sit the specific types — vegetable farm, orchard, grain farm, dairy farm, apiary, ranch, greenhouse, fishery, abattoir, creamery and the rest. A single operation can hold several of them at once, which is why a mixed farm with a cidery and a roadside shop turns up under more than one label without being counted twice.
For anyone building a local supply chain, the production layer is the one worth mapping first: it tells you what a region can actually supply, how far it has to travel, and where the gap between what is grown and what is sold is widest. Explore the production layer on the Asset Map.