Food activism

This article focuses on what communities can do to take action on food issues. Appropedia's Food article is a more general and signposting article.

What communities can do

Abundance schemes to collect and share food using bicycle trailers
Community orchards
Community vegetable gardens
Community-supported agriculture
Fruit tree mapping
Gardening match up service
'Guerrilla Gardening'
Gutter gardens, eg on lifehacker.com.au
Healthy eating initiatives
Local recipe collections
Organic gardening clubs
Organise food events such as Second Annual Solar Cookout!, Sustainable NE Seattle, or Free Compost Give Away Day, example http://www.ryedale.gov.uk/news_and_press_releases/free_compost_give_away_day.aspx
Polydome, revolutionary approach to greenhouse agriculture that offers the possibility of commercial scale, net-zero-impact food production.
Permaculture
School-community kitchens, eg Rethinking School Lunch: school-community kitchens on ecoliteracy.org
Seed saving, swapping and sharing
Set up an Urban forest garden or Food Forest, see for example: It’s Not a Fairytale: Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest. Forget meadows. The city’s new park will be filled with edible plants, and everything from pears to herbs will be free for the taking. takepart.com, February 21, 2012
Set up or support city farms
Set up or support Community Farm Land Trusts
Set up or support Farmers markets
Set up or support food cooperatives and bulk buy schemes
Sharing cooking skills, for example with younger people or younger parents
Slow food initiatives
Support wider initiatives such as Meat Free Mondays
Visit an organic farm
Yardsharing

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