WHAT DOES A COMMUNITY FOOD SYSTEM MEAN?

It means:

• producing healthy food locally.
• producing food in a way that reduces harm to the environment.
• distributing, marketing and consuming that food locally.
• putting control of food production into the hands of the people who are eating it.
• providing access to food for all people, regardless of social or economic constraints.
• educating the community about food and nutrition.
• creating local jobs and small businesses and multiplying the effect of every dollar spent locally on food.

When we change the way food is produced and change the minds of the people who eat it, we have the power to change a whole community. -People's Grocery, West Oakland, CA

Grassroots Economic Organizing Newsletter.Stillwater: Fall 2006. , Iss. 72/73; pg. 22