The Local Food Lab
After the Food Lab Enrich your map
Keep identifying local food resources, put them “on the map”, make the map available to others. Some may want to form a food network that looks for gaps and opportunities and helps local people start and grow food businesses.
Finances
Money for land, seeds, tools, equipment is crucial; a team may form to identify or develop sources of funds.
Spread Food Labs
Some who have successfully hosted a Local Food Lab and helped it grow the abundance and prosperity of a local food system may want to help other Local Food Labs through Lab design, facilitation, training, and technology assistance. The spirit of the Local Food Lab is generosity and integrity: sharing what works while understanding we are collaboratively developing the most elegant, replicate-able form possible to catalyze connections and actions in other communities. It is love and it is science. Love in that it’s a game we can all play. Science in that it’s designing an engine of change that works.