Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Well, i had a good intention

So last night i became the treasurer for the "Potluck Community Co-op" which is absolutely something i believe in, and think should happen, and therefore im happy to contribute, however im a little worried that our initiatives will be too narrow of scope to inclued the initiatives of Giogo, i hope that some rectification can be had from my input toward this, i have some idea for how to get everyone jump started, and to start making an immediate impact.

Community Garden (enabling initiative)
Members can get an earthworm composting bin, no matter where they live they can compost effective high qualtiy nutrient rich soil, for use in the community garden, for anyone who wants to use the soil, if we can get as a non-profit or through a fund raising initiative, bins, soil and the free worms from raven recycling, we can start mass composting quality soil, with an aim in the future to provide larger quantities to our production members of the co-op, and any community garden growers. This will have the immediate impact of bringing in visibility, increasing member numbers, and incentives for membership, a compost bin and place to put the soil when enriched.

Small Growers Initiative, (enabling initiative)
Using a model from 1000 years ago, we can make it convenient affordable and safe for small growers to sell small quantities of vegtables, and produce to a Co-op merchant organization by taking small quantities from members, for fair market value, and reselling through onine and harvest fair.

Harvest fair,
Co-op should invest time energy and money into hosting a harvest fair, stretching back to when harvest was a time when the communty came together to feast and celebrate their comming year, we should host an event for harvest fair that is more akin to the street celebreations they have in july, with music events, and a festival that includes fundraising and promotional venues for Co-op and its initiatives.

Stalk Exchange,
the website should be set up in such a way that people shopping and people producing can search each other out, using the model i was using from VB's new software, we can set it up so that producers can find who is buying what, and get the best value for their work. and buyers can see who is growing what, and in what quantities they will have it available, this is an embrionic working model and can be applied to anyone with a garden, that is interested in feeding others.

there is a few ideas for how we may want to start some of out projects and a direction to move in while we get sorted out, put here for me, so i will remember them.

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