From a distance, Berkeley lawyer Janelle Orsi thought she saw a lemonade stand.

As she biked closer, “lemonade” turned into “ soup.” A woman sat in front of her house with jars of her home cooking.

“Let’s take back our economy.  Let’s decentralize and democratize it,” Heather Young said, kicking off the panel called “Building the Alternative” at the Festival of Grassroots Economics, held September 26 at the Humanist Hall in Oakland.