Actions You Can Take

Discover local resources for action steps you can take in the following areas:

FOOD: What you can do to grow the local food movement

At Home:

• grow your own food, keep chickens, bees
• plant a row for the hungry
• compost: Orange Co.; Durham Co.; Wake Co.; Chatham Co.

PURCHASING:

• Join a CSA
• Buy at Farmers Markets, roadside stands, pick your own farms
• Become a member of a co-op (Weaver Street Market, Chatham Marketplace, Durham Central Market, Company Shops Market)
• Buy local/sustainably produced food offered at grocery stores
• patronize local restaurants who buy from local producers
  http://www.carrborofarmersmarket.com/chefs_who_shop.shtml
• participate in the CEFS NC 10% campaign
  http://www.ncsu.edu/project/nc10percent/index.php

LEARN:

• take workshops or courses at community colleges, county extension, community centers, and from local practitioners and teachers, (Abundance Foundation. Bountiful Backyards)
• attend the CFSA Farm Tours and conference www.carolinafarmstewards.org/
• join the join the NCSU local foods action listserve:
  local-foods-action-plan-owner [at] lists [dot] ncsu [dot] edu
• become a member of a Meetup group (Triangle Area Gardeners & Homesteaders
  www.meetup.com/Triangle-Area-Gardeners-and-Homesteaders/

WORK WITH OTHERS:

• start or participate in a community (or school, church or workplace) garden
• participate in a Crop Mob http://cropmob.org/

CONTRIBUTE TO OTHERS:

• participate in Farmer Food Share
  http://www.farmerfoodshare.org/durham-farmers-market/
• volunteer at a soup kitchen, food pantry, or local food group
• donate to or attend fundraisers for local food groups (CEFS- Center for Environmental Farming Systems, CFSA- Carolina Farm Stewardship, Slow Foods, SEEDS, etc)
• join as a member of a local food advocacy group (Slow Foods, CFSA, CEFS)
• become a lender to a local food producer through Slow Money NC
  http://theabundancefoundation.org/local-economy/slow-money

SUPPORT FARMWORKER RIGHTS: & FOOD JUSTICE INTIATIVES

• support farmworkers rights and small family farms (Student Action with Farmworkers- http://saf-unite.org/, RAFI- http://www.rafiusa.org/)
• work for food justice/food security http://ncfoodnet.com/category/access/justice/