This workshop is relevant for anyone interested in cultivating community power through connection, commitment to place, the power of food, creativity, and joy.

This is for people who work for community food projects: markets, farms, organizing projects, food education, small values-driven food businesses, land stewards, policy advocates, community gardeners, and anyone who cares about the people who nourish us and the land that feeds us.

We encourage you to attend with a buddy, teammate, or creative co-conspirator.

You’ll come away with:

• An understanding of how autocracy works locally – and specific “pillars of support” you can undermine or sway in your own community
• A map of power in your food community – understanding the types of power shaping your food community, key relationships you can activate, and strategic opportunities to exercise liberatory power
• A multi-generational vision for your food community’s transformation, grounded in relationships and places you care about
• 2-3 creative, joyful actions you can take in the next 90 days that resist autocracy while building community power
• Your people identified – knowing who you’re doing this work with and having concrete next steps to connect or deepen those collaborations
• Connection to a network of food workers and organizers committed to using food, story, and creativity as tools for resistance and community building