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
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
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
Building a community of practice close to home gives farmers and entrepreneurs assistance in making changes to
stabilize their work

The concept of livelihood
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
A description of a business focused not on growth or profit but on strengthening the livelihood portfolio of a rural
community

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Eating is a moral act
Complete facilitator’s guide to consider our tables and the food upon them and to respond to the justice issues
in ourcurrent food system. Combines with "Eating is a Moral Act" reflection cards from NCRLC.

Eating pizza can be an act of courage
Complete facilitator’s guide to activity that encourages youth to consider questions, make connections, and act on
justice issues in the food system. Includes all worksheets needed for activity.

Weaving a food system
Complete facilitator’s guide to a workshop to understand the current food system as the first step to modifying
it forboth eaters and farmers. Includes all worksheets and guides needed

How do we do business?
Complete facilitator’s guide to an appraisal that counts and categorizes businesses and enterprises in rural area,
combines the data and defines local issues; includes all worksheets except local township maps.

Growing food and profit: opening the door for farmers and rural entrepreneurs
Program outline for social/experiential learning process to build local communities of practice for diversifying
farmers and rural entrepreneurs.

Work of our hands directory
Sample of church directory that created a network/community of practice for rural entrepreneurs in St Mary-Holy
Cross Catholic parish, Elkhart, IA.