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* What health codes might apply? | * What health codes might apply? | ||
* Is Earth Central's tax ID sufficient for doing this kind of business? | * Is Earth Central's tax ID sufficient for doing this kind of business? | ||
| − | * How could we work with the city and other entities to ensure success? | + | * How could we work with the city and other entities to ensure success? Demonstration project |
* Certified Organic? | * Certified Organic? | ||
| + | * Annmarie Borucki may be able to help | ||
| + | * Brian Ellison can help connect us | ||
| + | * Cleveland and NYC have guidelines | ||
==== Menu Planning ==== | ==== Menu Planning ==== | ||
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* Planting plan bound to menu plan | * Planting plan bound to menu plan | ||
* Chef's gardens, economic and quality benefits | * Chef's gardens, economic and quality benefits | ||
| + | * Ask Charles and FoodLabs for help | ||
==== Conceptual Planting Plan Version 1.0 ==== | ==== Conceptual Planting Plan Version 1.0 ==== | ||
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* Planting plan bound to menu plan | * Planting plan bound to menu plan | ||
| − | + | ==== Pilot Implementation ==== | |
| − | + | Menu + Infrastructure + Growing + Harvest/Use | |
| + | * Start with small scale of each component | ||
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==== Growing Environment ==== | ==== Growing Environment ==== | ||
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* MCBW customers learn about foods and how their food is grown | * MCBW customers learn about foods and how their food is grown | ||
* GG visitors, volunteers and regulars see what it takes to grow sustainably | * GG visitors, volunteers and regulars see what it takes to grow sustainably | ||
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* Connection to natural seasons and cycles | * Connection to natural seasons and cycles | ||
* Students learn how to work with nature and with communities | * Students learn how to work with nature and with communities | ||
| + | * How to communicate and receive feedback | ||
Other | Other | ||
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* Contact Mind, Body, and Spirits former owners | * Contact Mind, Body, and Spirits former owners | ||
* Traffic Jam rooftop grower | * Traffic Jam rooftop grower | ||
| + | * 3 Season room could be used to display what's growing up top | ||
| + | * Mushrooms in the basement or elsewhere in the building, especially in winter | ||
| + | * Social and other media | ||
Latest revision as of 15:09, 8 August 2012
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Contents
Work Plan
Regulations
Zoning and codes
- Does zoning allow this activity?
- What health codes might apply?
- Is Earth Central's tax ID sufficient for doing this kind of business?
- How could we work with the city and other entities to ensure success? Demonstration project
- Certified Organic?
- Annmarie Borucki may be able to help
- Brian Ellison can help connect us
- Cleveland and NYC have guidelines
Menu Planning
Specialty menus
- Annual planning process
- Seasonal planning quarterly
- Start with Winter 2012-2013
- Featured items
- Cost, price, quantity needed
- Menu description and story
- 2013 specialty menu plan by month
- Planting plan bound to menu plan
- Chef's gardens, economic and quality benefits
- Ask Charles and FoodLabs for help
Conceptual Planting Plan Version 1.0
First potential crops
- Feasibility
- Timing
- Economic
- Maintenance
- Test planting?
- Planting plan bound to menu plan
Pilot Implementation
Menu + Infrastructure + Growing + Harvest/Use
- Start with small scale of each component
Growing Environment
Structural impact
- Water harvest, storage, and use
- Media and containers
- Covering(s)/season extension measures/shade/ventilation
Crop management
- Fertility
- Integrated pest management/crop health
- Production schedules
- Energy needed (labor, power)
- Could it ever be more than just plants? Bees-Ask Gwen Meyers-Lafayette Greens? Chickens? Fish? Worms? Black Soldier Fly larvae?
Pilot one smaller area for first season before deploying larger scale operations
Economic
- Value of supporting local good food movement
- True costs of food (nutritional, energy, environmental, social, political)
- Costs to produce food vs. dollar value of crops
- Must be profitable for all three: MCBW, Green Garage, Earth Central
- Life cycle of all materials and systems
Community
- Demonstrates next generation of "farm-to-plate" relationship. Special recipes.
- Conduct demonstration tours..showing sustainable urban agriculture
- Allow sitting area for Green Garage ... Businesses in Residence...and ways they can participate
- Next generation partnering with MCBW...symbiotic interdependence...compost cycle...spent grain?
- Next generation works on the farm...students
Learning
- MCBW customers learn about foods and how their food is grown
- GG visitors, volunteers and regulars see what it takes to grow sustainably
- Hands on learning for those who learn best by doing
- Connection to natural seasons and cycles
- Students learn how to work with nature and with communities
- How to communicate and receive feedback
Other
- Bloody Mary menu items
- Ingredients for drinks
- Everybody goes in there for beer, only some order food
- Contact Mind, Body, and Spirits former owners
- Traffic Jam rooftop grower
- 3 Season room could be used to display what's growing up top
- Mushrooms in the basement or elsewhere in the building, especially in winter
- Social and other media
