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One person really can make a difference. From starting neighborhood kitchens to connecting food pantries with local family farms, Ali Berlow offers a variety of simple and practical strategies for improving your community’s food quality and security. Learn how your actions can keep money in the local economy, reduce the carbon footprint associated with food transportation, and preserve local landscapes. The Food Activist Handbook gives you the know-how and inspiration to create a better world, one meal at a time.

Ali Berlow is the author of The Food Activist Handbook and The Mobile Poultry Slaughterhouse, and the co-owner of Edible Vineyard magazine. Berlow founded and served as the first executive director of Island Grown Initiative, a grassrooots nonprofit that encourages and supports a resilient and accessible local food system on Martha’s Vineyard. She is the co-host of “The Local Food Report,” a public radio program out of WCAI in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. She lives in West Tisbury, Massachusetts, and in Putney, Vermont.

Foreword by Alice Randall

Introduction

Chapter 1: Start

Know your Local Food Community
Hold a Potluck with a Purpose
Find Your Issues
Host a Farmers' Dinner

Chapter 2: Educate

Start a Farm to School Program
Institute Best Practices at Your School Garden
Get Certified
Have a Fun-Raiser
Go to a Conference
Connect Athletics to Healthy Eating
Restrict Food and Beverage Advertising in Schools
Start a Harvest of the Month Program
Collect Data
Make Over McDonald's
Visit Your School Cafeteria
Suspend Judgment
Start a College Farm
Join the Food Revolution
Celebrate Food Day

Chapter 3: Build

Ask What Is Working
Practice the Foundations of Just Food Systems
Learn Your History
Campaign For Agricultural Workers' Rights
Build a Healthy Organization
Implement a Conflict-of-Interest Policy
Ask for Money (and Use It Well)
Keep Your Good Name
Create a Food Hub
Make a Map
Use Mapmaking Software
Organize a Farmers' Market
Create a Permit Program for Produce Cart Vendors
Join Farm Hack
Support Humane Slaughter
Build a Local Slaughterhouse
Find a Policy Geek (or Become One)
Become an Interpreter
Learn from Those Who Came before You

Chapter 4: Grow

Make a Farm Succession Plan
Green Your City Spaces
Diversify with Ethnic Crops
Seek Funding for Commercial Aquaponics
Save Seeds
Start a Public Seed Library
Build a Community Garden
Grow Free Food
Keep Bees
Grow a Kitchen Garden
Organize a Workplace CSA
Protect Migrant Workers

Chapter 5: Connect

Mentor Veterans
Parade Cows Down Main Street
Throw a Living Local Fest
Screen a Film
Plant a Garden at a Jail
Decolonize Your Diet
Host Interfaith Discussions about Food
Bring Together Food and Religion

Chapter 6: Speak

Be a Witness
Promote Good Work
Keep Informed
Listen
Learn to Tell Stories
Hold a Poetry Workshop
Publish
Use Media

Chapter 7: Harvest

Create a Gleaning Network
Harvest Public Fruit Trees
Extend the Harvest
Forage Wild Foods
Start a Fillet Program
Choose Fish Wisely

Chapter 8: Feed

Support a Local Grocery Store
Start a Food Miles Labeling Program
Make Food Distribution Efficient
Become a Food Desert Grocer
Shop at Your Local Farmer's Market
Accept SNAP
Campaign to Raise the Minimum Wage
Start a Campaign to Tax Unhealthy Food
Start a Food Recovery Program
Bring Good Food to Hospitals
Reduce Food Waste at Restaurants

Chapter 9: Cook

Make Small Changes
Plan Meals
Grocery Shop
Start a Community Kitchen
Start a Cooking Club
Go Meatless on Mondays
Cook for Someone with Cancer
Host a Dinner-and-a-Movie Potluck
Host a Grow-Out
Clean Up

Chapter 10: Engage

Start from Where the World Is
Be an Active Citizen
Serve on a Board or Commission
Fund Effective Programs
Connect Food Policy Councils and Town Planners
Engage with Boards and Commissions
Know Your Members of Congress
Speak Out
#VoteFood

Acknowledgements
Index

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The Food Activist Handbook Big & Small Things You Can Do to Help Provide Fresh, Healthy Food for Your Community

The Food Activist Handbook Big & Small Things You Can Do to Help Provide Fresh, Healthy Food for Your Community

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