Rebuilding Your Local Food System

Understanding: Do you understand your current local food system?
- Community Food Security Assessment Toolkit
- First Nation’s Food Sovereignty Assessment Tool
Stakeholders: Do you have all the key stakeholders involved?
- HCFS handout, Sample Values List
Values: Have you listened to the varied perspectives about the local food system from people in your community?
- HCFS worksheet, Values Exercises
Visions: Do you have a vision for what you want your food system to be in the future?
- HCFS worksheet, Picturing Your Community Food System
Strategic Plans: Do you have clear plans for how to achieve your desired future?
- HCFS Tool, Starting a Buy Local Food Campaign
Models: Have you learned from the experience of other communities like yours?
- Four Corners Foodsheds
- Southwest Colorado Foodsheds
Education: Do people in your community understand the issues and opportunities?
- HCFS tool, How and Why to Buy Local
- HCFS tool, Sustainable Food Choices
Policy: Do you have policies in place to support your local food system?
- Local Food Policy Resources from HCFS
Evaluation: Have you evaluated your efforts to date in strengthening your food system?
- Whole Measures for Community Food Systems

Wendell Berry, 1981, “Solving for Pattern” in The Gift of Good Land. North Point Press, San Francisco.

Michael Pollan, 2006, The Omnivore’s Dilemma. The Penguin Press, New York.

Being Proactive—as a Community—About Climate Change in our Local Food Systems and Foodsheds