The challenges

• Bite-sized challenge   Choose one thing for each day(7 things)
• Meal-sized challenge   Choose two or more things for each day (14+ things)
• Feast-sized challenge   Commit to eat only locally and sustainably produced food during the week.

Here’s some of the things you can do…

• Shop at a farmers’ market
• Source farm-gate produce
• Source local meats or cheeses
• Go foraging! – eat edible weeds
• Buy cruelty free eggs (laid by happy chooks!)
• Buy in bulk (minimise packaging)
• Shop at a local food coop (take your own containers)
• Source free-range or organic meats
• Harvest and eat food from your own garden
• Don’t use the supermarkets this week. Shop at local independent grocers, butchers, delis.

• Eat (at least) 5 Servings of Local, Organic fruit & veggies per day
• Dine at a café or restaurant with sustainable features
• Cook with seasonal produce
• Cook with local oils or grains
• Sip on local milk, juice, beers or wine
• Swap sugar for local honey (or stevia)
• Make your own butter
• Make your yoghurt
• Make your own ferments (ie. fetta, sauerkraut, ginger beer, kimchi, pickled foods)
• Make your own ice-cream
• Go plastic-free packaging
• Go meat free (vegetarian)
• Go meat and dairy free (vegan)

• Find out more about and try food preserving – bottling, drying, freezing
• Start a herb box or mini-plot (can be single pot on the porch, or something more in the garden)
• Compost your kitchen scraps
• Start a worm farm
• Gather with friends for a local ‘pot-luck’ meal
• Attend a local food swap
• Visit a local community garden

• Join a CSA farm
• Join a food coop
• Read a relevant book
• Host a book discussion
• Join a relevant community network such as a permaculture group, transition initiative, seed savers network or slow food group
• Like Local Harvest on Facebook, or follow on Twitter
• Volunteer at a farm, school garden or community garden

• Ask you local café for their coffee grounds for your garden
• Sign up and campaign against genetic engineered foods, with Geneethics, Madge or the True Foods Network
• Lobby your local grocer, deli or favourite café to include more local produce
• Ask you representatives (councillors, state and federal parliamentarians) to support organic farming
• Speak with your school canteen about local sourcing
• Start a garden in your community or school (or nature strip)