Some Food Action
Bruce Anderson from Sustainable Community Solutions is developing a plan for a community scale root cellar on the north edge of town. He will be looking for investors and investment strategies. Now, here’s the deal. The facility will be 1) 100% renewable-energy-powered, and 2) could include the possibility of a commercial kitchen for incubating local food businesses and other possibilities, and 3) a micro-brewery. He is putting a call out to the area for thoughts on this venture. Please contact him directly at bruce@sustainablecommunitysolutions.com
I second that, Gina! Fantastic Idea!!! I have more than 300 jars that I have wanted to get put into a ‘jar library’, but the flood kinda stopped our movement forward on things here. I think this would be a great place to have such classes, and make the jar library a communal effort. :) Leftover apples, potatoes, carrots, etc. could all be easily stored, dried or preserved and shelved. It would also be a great location to have a seed exchange for those of us that have extra seeds to swap. Would love to see the credit banking idea incorporated… Well, I need to go now and put away the 80lbs of potatoes, 40lbs of carrots, etc that I just picked up last night. :)
This is a great idea! I’m not in a position to invest but I’m thinking that with a
root cellar it would wonderful to have a business or service that helps people to
can and preserve food–what you can can and preserve, what you need to do it, how to
do it, safety considerations like how long you can keep canned goods, etc. People would bring their own jars but the other equipment would be community property. Maybe the cost of the service would be a certain percentage of whatever is canned that goes into the root cellar. Just some thoughts.