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.