Your biggest resource is the 10-Day Local Food Challenge On-line Community. We encourage you to sign up. For 2015 it’s just $1.99/month to join. You’ll get the Ready Set Eat Local! e-zine for free plus the beautiful $2.99 e-book about the 2014 Challenge.
If you aren’t already a regular at Farmers Markets and Farm Stands or if “food” = “grocery store” for you, here are some online resources that the creators attempt to keep up to date. Once you dive in to the 10-Day Local Food Challenge, you’ll surely find many more tucked away.
http://fallingfruit.org/ (an awesome new crowd-sourced map for urban gleaners. Share your sources. Make it better)
A bookstore with our favorite 50+ books for the passionate local eaters to suit every taste, from cooks to story lovers to do-it-yourself-ers to policy wonks. Buy through us and you support the 10-Day Local Food Challenge. We are a social-profit business, meaning we aren’t supported by funders, we are supported by passionate local eaters who want to be part of a community of practice and a tool for spreading the word and yes, changing the world.
Will we have swag – shopping bags, aprons, caps with our logo? Ya sure you betcha. Coming soon.
You think the 10-Day Local Food Challenge is great and want to share it? Lots of ways to do that.
Send all your friends, colleagues and townsfolk the Sign-up link so they’re in the loop. No expectations of how or when they will do the Challenge, but they can stay informed. Craft your own message. Borrow liberally from the website.
Invite your friends to join you in the On-line Community. Do it as a group. Have potlucks. Progressive Dinners. Collaborative mapping of resources. Informational events. Celebrations. Add “local food” to your list of causes. Join organizations. Bring it to your church. If you are part of the On-line Community and share your stories, we’ll all get smarter together. The 10-Day Local Food challenge is a game – and a game changer. Be the change, then make waves.
Use the #10localfoodchallenge for Tweets. Here are a couple of canned tweets you can use if you can’t – yet – figure out 140 characters.
Passionate about #localfood? #10daylocalfoodchallenge starts 10/1. How local can you go? #eatlocal #realfood http://bit.ly/1iaC0rD
For 10 days, eat #food from 100-mile, with 10 cheats. #10daylocalfoodchallenge starts 10/1. #localfood #eatlocal http://bit.ly/1iaC0rD
Join #localfood eaters for #10DayLocalFoodChallenge. Starts 10/1. Find #local #realfood, test your wits and will. http://bit.ly/1iaC0rD
#localfood. Great idea, but can you live it? Yes. Do the #10daylocalfoodchallenge. Starts 10/1. We’re rooting for you. http://bit.ly/1iaC0rD
Help grow the #10daylocalfoodchallenge to promote #localfood to eaters everywhere. Be a food #gamechanger. http://bit.ly/1iaC0rD
Love #localfood but lack time, money or motivation? Do the #10daylocalfoodchallenge. Starts 10/1. #localfoodchallenge http://bit.ly/1iaC0rD
Live 10 days just eating #localfood from 100 miles. Join the global net of #local #eaters#10daylocalfoodchallenge http://bit.ly/1iaC0rD
#10daylocalfoodchallenge. For 10-days eat within 100 miles. Starts 10/1. Join a global community of #localfood eaters. http://bit.ly/1iaC0rD
I’ve joined the #10daylocalfoodchallenge. I’m eating my region in October. How local can we go? https://madmimi.com/s/bf3c35# < — Tweet!
Join the #10daylocalfoodchallenge. 10 days in October. Eat where you are planted. How local can we go? https://madmimi.com/s/bf3c35# <– Tweet!
You can ask to join the closed Facebook Group from 2014. Read around. See what fun we had. This year the action is in the Group Site, which you can join for a small fee that opens a door to a big room of discussions, conversations, videos, invitation and discounts. The more you use “10-Day Local Food Challenge” in your writing, the more you link to this website, the more people will find us according to search engine logic.
We’ve copy-lefted all material on this site under the creative commons license.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
This means you can share our writing and visuals with attribution to our website, but you can’t incorporate these in your commercial venture nor remix elements and call it the 10-Day Local Food Challenge.
We do want you to share share share. We want everyone you share with to return to the source and join the community and together build a global movement of local eaters.
Here’s some more images you can use under our creative commons license.
And some lovely quotes from Vicki Robin who created this project.
