So you buy your vegetables as locally as possible, eat organic and seasonal food where you can, and are perhaps even coming to grips with managing an allotment. However, as the scale of the recession and rising fuel prices start to be keenly felt, you may be wondering what else you can do? Local Food offers an inspiring yet practical guide to what can be achieved if you get together with the people on your street, the people in your village, town or city. It is an exploration of the potential power of working collaboratively. Drawing on the practical experience of Transition initiatives and other community initiatives around the world, this guide powerfully shows how by working together the results can be far greater than the sum of their parts. Local food guides, Community Supported Agriculture schemes, community gardens, even the creation of local currencies to support local food production, are all explored here, with all the information you will need to get started. An explosion of activity at community level is urgently needed, and this book is the ideal place to start.
Dedications. Acknowledgements. Foreword by Rosie Boycott. Introduction by Rob Hopkins. The local food movement. The Great Reskilling. Home garden growing in the community. Allotment provision and gardening for community groups. Garden shares. Community gardens. Community orchards. Community Supported Agriculture. Farmers' markets. Food cooperatives. Local food guides and directories. School projects on local food. Local food events. Expanding local food projects. Yet more inspired ideas. The local food project and beyond. References. Resources. Index.