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Rebuilding Your Local Food System
Most Closely Related Tools
Sustainable Food Choices
Extending the Local Food Season
How & Why to Buy Local
Starting a Buy Local Food Campaign
Resources & References
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 Exercise
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 and SW Colorado Foodsheds from HCFS
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
FOR MORE ON “WHOLE SOLUTIONS”: Wendell Berry, 1981, “Solving for Pattern” in The Gift of Good Land. North Point Press, San Francisco.
FOR MORE ON “ANONYMOUS FOOD”: Michael Pollan, 2006, The Omnivore’s Dilemma. The Penguin Press, New York.
