“…This research problem is nested in the larger question of how nonhuman actors are accounted for in food system supply chains, and builds on the work of others in exploring the role of nonhumans in agri-food networks ( Bonnaud and Anzalone, 2021 ; Brice, 2014 ; Chao, 2018 ; Duggan and Peeren, 2020 ; Dwiartama, 2017 ; Eriksson and Bull, 2017 ; Fleming, 2017 ; Heron et al, 2016 ; O. Jones, 2006 ; K. Legun et al, 2022 ; K. Legun and Henry, 2017 ; Lendvay, 2021 ; Phillips, 2014 ), for other commodities (such as cork Brooks and Francis, 2020 ) and wool (L. Jones et al, 2019 ). A posthumanist lens makes visible the agentic capacities of nonhumans and I argue that plants, along with what participants call ‘nature,’ played a key role in keeping produce supply chains moving at the Terminal.…”