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Peter McDermott
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City Fresh
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WSEM Food Centers in need of produce donations
Started 24 Sep
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Creating Cleveland's New Story
November 25, 2008 from 2pm to 8:30pm – Thwing Center @ CWRU
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10% Grown Locally = 4,000 acres, 8,000 jobs and a $360 million economy
What would it look like if 10% of the food that families in Cleveland ate was grown within the city limits?
This question leads to an interesting and pretty inspiring story problem.
Follow me for a bit here:
1. According to the latest U.S. Census data, the City of Cleveland is home to about 438,000 people.
2. According to… Continue
Posted on 25 September 2008 at 12:00pm — 4 Comments
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- Your business or organization:
- Entrepreneurs for Sustainability
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- http://www.e4s.org
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- peter@e4s.org
- Tell us about yourself:
- I am a Network Weaver at Entrepreneurs for Sustainability (E4S) - a non-profit economic development organization in Cleveland, OH that holds networking events and learning programs for businesses and organizations that want to implement sustainable business practices. Most of the work I do is in building a sustainable local food system. I hope to use online social networking to increase the awareness and connectivity of our the E4S Network - leading to new collaborations, projects and businesses.
- What about local food makes you most excited?
- Building community and relationships around food. Opportunities for green-collar jobs and low-income entrepreurship in urban agriculture.
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Anyway, I was happy to invite so many folks to the website. I feel that one of the great benefits of City Fresh is it is an easy, accessible way to bring folks into the idea of local food. Shoot, it hooked me!
I just found out about a service that delivers local organic food right to your door. Meat, dairy and veggies. This osunds really convenient for the busy person who doesn't have time to go all over the palce. Do you want to add it to the Buy Local Distributors section?
http://organicsatyourdoor.webs.com/index.htm
Since we already have most of the materials for that stuff collected here at extension, it seems like a good fit.
How would you like to go about it? We have information in a variety of kind of mishmashed formats. Lots of page-or-two fact sheets (besides the Ohioline bulletins) we could throw those up, or take a bit more time and rework them (probably a good idea although harder to pull off). How are you envisioning it to look on the site?
Thanks,
Brad
FYI:
I've been writing the "Ask OSU Extension" column in the PD's thursday Inside & Out section for the past few months. For the November 20th column, I gave LocalFoodCleveland a plug.
Sorry I missed the Food Congress!
Be Well,
Brad