This discussion of a central food preservation hub is really a great idea. If I could chime in on the location: Consider Carpenter "park", a vacant cul de sac near the Farmer's Market and Community Gardens. This might be a good site for the kind of facility described because of its proximity to water and rail transportation, which in the near future may be the most sustainable ways to get supplies and foodstocks from farming areas farther up the lake, as even local trucking costs rise. In the meantime it is on the main trucking route already and wouldn't bring unwanted traffic into neighborhoods.
Imagine the Farmer's Market, Food Preservation Hub, Community gardens, a gardening and preservation education center and an eventual living machine that could replace the sewage treatment plant, all forming a comprehensive *Urban Agriculture Hub*. Some things to add (or plan for) might be facilities to not just preserve food, but to collectively house small "value added food product" businesses, i.e. breweries, cheese makers, millers, bakeries, and other food related green enterprise. Lastly, In the interest of creating a sustainability nexxus on the waterfront, would this be a good location for the Green Resource Hub facility... has that been sited yet? Rob Morache _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
