Lynn Peemoeller’s contribution will investigate the “edible matter” of food as a leading agent in landscape change along the Mississippi River. Site observations will index progressive rhythms of what has been lost and gained through postnatural and human ecologies in order to arrive at the industrialized agricultural landscapes of the present. Preplanned and spontaneous actions will provide river travelers with edible encounters presented as different time periods that have been marked by significant human interaction. This heuristic method will use food as an “actant” in assemblages of time and place to invite conversation and fuel interpretations of the landscape as the river is traveled.