Events & Quilting Club

What's a Neighborhood Food Hub? What are the Food System Patterns we can incorporate into a hub? We'll explore both social and physical Neighborhood-scale Food Systems Infrastructure.

Good people, good food, good times

We'll conduct the annual Report to Owners, and conduct any decision making and voting process needed.

Why is it that most retailers (even those that believe in local food have a lot of CA organic on their shelves? Don't they believe in local food? We'll explore these questions and work towards solutions. We invite retailers and grocers to participate in this discussion alongside consumers.

Imagine cooperatively owned multi-vendor storefronts in every neighborhood. Aside from having a place to stock product week-round, producer and consumers can benefit greatly to make storefronts where producers sell direct to consumer while sharing marketing and operations.

It's that essential thing, that fundamental thing, that thing without which we may never see the ideal of "community" we've been striving for. In this session, we'll talk all things Trust. What is it? How does it play out? How could/should we expand our boundaries of trust?

Shared-risk growing is growing in Partnership. Why is sharing the risk of food production important? How do we establish contract grows with neighborhood groups, retailers, and grocers? We'll talk about forms of sharing risk and ways we can start to plan and implement partnership growing.

Well this is a tough topic. But one we need to talk about. We'll explore the reasons prices are the way they are. And come up with possible solutions to directly affect Food access and affordability issues.