Table of Contents

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