What You Can Do

You Can Create A Sustainable Local Food System

• Buy directly from local farmers, fish catchers, and foragers.

• Find your local farmers market.

• Eat what is in season.

• Eat at local restaurants that use local foods, ask them what is local on the menu.

• Shop at locally-owned markets. Request that they buy and highlight local

  products.

• If you shop at a supermarket, ask where their produce, meat and dairy

  products come from. Request that they buy and highlight local products.

• Buy wild-harvested seafood caught by local fish catchers.

• Throw a dinner party or potluck using foods grown in Mendocino County.

• Grow your own food, grow year-round, eat what is in your garden.

• Get involved in a localization group, the Grange or another organization that is working towards a stronger local food system.

• Encourage legislators at all levels to take leadership in developing policies

  that support small farmers and local food production.

• Teach children to care about where their food comes from. Talk with them

  about what is on the dinner table and where it has come from.

Most of all ... Meet your local farmers, ask to visit their farms, let them know you appreciate that they are farming.