For those of you who know Jeff Furman (of Ben & Jerry's fame as well as local hero), he has been intrerested in a community cannery for years. He may have ideas as well as resources to help make this happen Tony Del Plato
On 5/29/08, Robert Morache <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > -- "Justice is what love looks like in public." ~ Dr. Cornel West _______________________________________________ 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
