Local food at your church dinner
A guide to how you can incorporate local food connections into your next church dinner or event

Where do you shop?
Worksheet activity and dialogue outline about purchasing food and food security in your town/parish

Mapping food outlets - MS Word download
Directions for making a community map that will picture what is known and unknown, reveal patterns,
structure issues, and discover new possibilities about food and food security in your town/parish

Analyzing local food systems for success - MS Word download
Process for describing a local food system from the land to the eater’s table, analyzing which technical processes
AND what relationships act to add benefit and value to the system, and looking for resources, gaps and issues in
that system.

Shared use kitchens
A guide to allowing local farmers to do light processing in a church or school commercial kitchen

Building communities of practice
Forming resilient groups around work or practice to create meaning, resources and support for change and
continuance.

Work of our hands: building a neighborly economy
Steps taken by a rural parish to connect the gifts of its people have created a neighborly economy AND
strengthenedparish and community connections

Growing food and profit - MS Word download
Building a community of practice close to home gives farmers and entrepreneurs assistance in making changes to
stabilize their work

The concept of livelihood- MS Word download
The resilience and inventiveness of rural people in constructing a means of living by sniffing around for
opportunitiesin their environment and diversifying for stability is the foundation of livelihood

PMA-a livelihood business - MS Word download
A description of a business focused not on growth or profit but on strengthening the livelihood portfolio of a rural
community