July 10th
Agenda items:
Fundraisers:
-Aspen at Historical society: Reconsider this event
-Update regarding Carbondale event, Wendy A. and Lisa Ruoff
-Discussion regarding films: MT is checking with Food, Inc distributors. We also discussed the possibility of having ‘home showings’ with book clubs, etc. of Fresh for mini-fundraisers
Email blast/newsletter:
-Who designing (MT is following up with Elliot)
-Databases...individually and/or collectively...WHO collating ( Everyone to be gathering and preparing their own for a blast VERY soon)
Printed material:
-status: Tom and Roy are working on a logo for immediate creation of all printed materials including brochure, stationery, cards, etc. Tom is gathering materials and creating a generic packet for foundations, etc.
Website:
-status and who is doing what: MT, AJ, Danny and Elliot will have this up and running by our next meeting…..tomorrow???
-PayPal: Only need confirmation of 501c3 status from either MT or Susan, whomever receives the email from PayPal first!
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Monday, June 15, 2009
FCF Website Update
HOME:
Mission Statement - is it the best it can be? Should there be more? A list of Goals? Accomplishments? (CSA Farm School)
PROJECTS:
CSA Farm School (Danny's Video), teacher bios, link to Aspen Homegrown, Common Sense Regen;
Yampah Mtn HS
RFHS
Aspen MS
Ag-Zoning
CURRICULUM: (Google Calendar?)
CSA Farm School Classes
CMC Classes
Heritage Fruit Tree Caretaker Classes
Cooking & Food Preservation Classes
Volunteer Opportunities Calendar (links to volunteer registration)
VOLUNTEER:
Register for volunteer opportunities, event description (who-what-when-where-what to bring)
DONATE:
PayPal link, Fat City Farms mailing address, database fields to record who donates what, when, and what is their mailing address so we can mail a thank-you card.
CONTACT:
Add mailing address, names and phone numbers for roles, responsibilities:
General Information: David Bedford, Board Member, geninfo@fatcityfarmers.org
Registering Students: Susan Brady, President school@fatcityfarmers.org
Making Donations: Tom Jones, Executive Director donate@fatcityfarmers.org
School Greenhouse Projects: MT projects@fatcityfarmers.org
ABOUT US:
Bios, photos
LINKS:
Fine as is, any other links we should add?
THANKS:
List of donors
BLOG:
Link to our Fat City Farmers blog;
Search Engine Optimization:
Key words people are using, when we want to be in their search results:
"CSA"
"Farm School"
"Permaculture"
"Edible Schoolyard"
"Farm to School"
"School Greenhouse"
"Local Food"
"Organic Farming"
"Garden Classroom"
Mission Statement - is it the best it can be? Should there be more? A list of Goals? Accomplishments? (CSA Farm School)
PROJECTS:
CSA Farm School (Danny's Video), teacher bios, link to Aspen Homegrown, Common Sense Regen;
Yampah Mtn HS
RFHS
Aspen MS
Ag-Zoning
CURRICULUM: (Google Calendar?)
CSA Farm School Classes
CMC Classes
Heritage Fruit Tree Caretaker Classes
Cooking & Food Preservation Classes
Volunteer Opportunities Calendar (links to volunteer registration)
VOLUNTEER:
Register for volunteer opportunities, event description (who-what-when-where-what to bring)
DONATE:
PayPal link, Fat City Farms mailing address, database fields to record who donates what, when, and what is their mailing address so we can mail a thank-you card.
CONTACT:
Add mailing address, names and phone numbers for roles, responsibilities:
General Information: David Bedford, Board Member, geninfo@fatcityfarmers.org
Registering Students: Susan Brady, President school@fatcityfarmers.org
Making Donations: Tom Jones, Executive Director donate@fatcityfarmers.org
School Greenhouse Projects: MT projects@fatcityfarmers.org
ABOUT US:
Bios, photos
LINKS:
Fine as is, any other links we should add?
THANKS:
List of donors
BLOG:
Link to our Fat City Farmers blog;
Search Engine Optimization:
Key words people are using, when we want to be in their search results:
"CSA"
"Farm School"
"Permaculture"
"Edible Schoolyard"
"Farm to School"
"School Greenhouse"
"Local Food"
"Organic Farming"
"Garden Classroom"
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Fat City Farmers - email invitation
SCHOOL GARDENS COMING TO CARBONDALE!
Fat City Farmers, the Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute (CRMPI) and others are applying for grants and organizing the Carbondale community for a Garden Raising at the Roaring Fork High School. The gardens will include a Growing Spaces Greenhouse Dome and a 1.5-acre fenced outdoor Edible Forest Garden.
Fat City Farmers, the Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute (CRMPI) and others are applying for grants and organizing the Carbondale community for a Garden Raising at the Roaring Fork High School. The gardens will include a Growing Spaces Greenhouse Dome and a 1.5-acre fenced outdoor Edible Forest Garden.
High School teachers and students will learn the arts of growing food in our climate, with expert instructors from CRMPI, and there will be many classes for the community, so we can all learn to grow our own food year-round, successfully. This facility will help set a foundation of knowledge for an emerging local food economy, and an age of local artisan foods.
Will you help us to build this wonderful Agricultural Classroom? We are seeking to raise funds through a fundraising dinner in early July, a screening of the films "Food, Inc.", and "FRESH" in late July, as well as ongoing grant applications. You can easily donate online on the Fat City Farms website. All donations are tax-deductible.
We have School Board and Neighborhood approvals, and we are progressing with the design, which can be followed on the RFHS Gardens Blog as the CRMPI Permaculture Design Course designs the garden and greenhouse planting systems. All we need is the community enthusiasm and support only YOU can provide! Please join us!
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Let's go to the Movies!
David and MT talked recently, and came up with the idea of hosting community screenings of two new movies, "FOOD, Inc." and "FRESH!" These two releases are about our mission, and the films are not scheduled to play in Aspen - yet. FOOD, Inc. should play at one of the Aspen theaters in July, but they don't have a date yet. FRESH! muyst be arranged as a community screening, as this movie is not part of the commercial film distribution system. MT has ordered it on DVD and will holler when it comes in. See the trailers of both films in the sidebar.
Monday, June 1, 2009
RFHS Project - Printing - Website
Our Goal is to raise $100,000. for the RFHS Garden & Greenhouse Project by August, two months away. CRMPI is researching and filing for grants.
Fat City Farms will work local organizations to raise support. We have several networks in which to work:
Foodie Summit network;
Common Sense Regeneration Project network;
Sustainable Settings network (I have begun talking with Brook LeVan about this, and expect some help from his network);
C.O.R.E. network;
Eco Goddess Edibles and Carbondale Restaurant network;
Basalt Thrift Store network (we know they don’t want to be left out of this)
Carbondale Mountain Fair network (some of the same ladies we impressed at the 5 Point Filmfest);
Each of us must help with this, and we need to enlist many more people. We can each ask of ourselves, "Who can I contact, and how can they help?" We should each make our list and show it to everyone else, then set about to contact and motivate the community.
I talked with my friends at Metaphor Art, who can design and print any graphics we need, and they are on the job. We won’t get a better deal, nor more professional work, anywhere. They are a family business, with three creative children, who are going to help us design logo and artwork. They will be taking classes at the facility we are building, and they are excited about helping. I have defined what we need so far as:
Logo artwork;
Letterhead (design to be printed with letters);
Thank you cards, with 501c3 EIN, for tax returns;
Posters for events;
Face to Face meeting this Wednesday morning at Limelight, 10:00 am - MT must leave at 11:00 am.
Fat City Farms will work local organizations to raise support. We have several networks in which to work:
Foodie Summit network;
Common Sense Regeneration Project network;
Sustainable Settings network (I have begun talking with Brook LeVan about this, and expect some help from his network);
C.O.R.E. network;
Eco Goddess Edibles and Carbondale Restaurant network;
Basalt Thrift Store network (we know they don’t want to be left out of this)
Carbondale Mountain Fair network (some of the same ladies we impressed at the 5 Point Filmfest);
Each of us must help with this, and we need to enlist many more people. We can each ask of ourselves, "Who can I contact, and how can they help?" We should each make our list and show it to everyone else, then set about to contact and motivate the community.
I talked with my friends at Metaphor Art, who can design and print any graphics we need, and they are on the job. We won’t get a better deal, nor more professional work, anywhere. They are a family business, with three creative children, who are going to help us design logo and artwork. They will be taking classes at the facility we are building, and they are excited about helping. I have defined what we need so far as:
Logo artwork;
Letterhead (design to be printed with letters);
Thank you cards, with 501c3 EIN, for tax returns;
Posters for events;
Face to Face meeting this Wednesday morning at Limelight, 10:00 am - MT must leave at 11:00 am.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Edible Schoolyard Program
Edible Schoolyard / CSA Farm School Project
Preliminary Management Structure
This purpose of this document is to outline CRMPI’s role in construction, infrastructure and consulting for the school projects. The Roaring Fork High school project has been approved by the school board and will begin infrastructure and greenhouse building over the summer of 2009. Division of labor and job assignments is where our focus lies right now so that we may begin this project in an orderly and timely fashion. We welcome input and feedback from all the other involved parties in this process.
CRMPI’s Role: CRMPI is a 501(c)3 that will umbrella the school projects and provide staff and support to develop and oversee Edible Schoolyard and CSA Farm school projects. Students for the CSA Farm school will be recruited through CRMPI’s website and advertising as well as through postings on other sites such as ATTRA.gov.
EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD – Operated during the 9 month regular school year
The Edible Schoolyard project will be managed and maintained by hired staff members once the construction of the greenhouse and gardens and infrastructure are complete. There will be 2 part to full time positions required for this purpose.
• An Edible schoolyard coordinator – will work with teachers from RFHS and visiting schools to schedule class times and activities. This person will be in charge of the educational component of the Edible Schoolyard and will act as a liaison between the school and CRMPI. 9 months per year
• A Garden Manager – a person with gardening abilities and training to coordinate all the growing related tasks of the garden and greenhouse. This person will be in charge of planting and harvesting schedules, greenhouse and irrigation maintenance and composting. An experienced gardener is needed for this scale of a project. The gardener may be called upon at times to give advice or help with student planting projects. 9 or 12 months TBD
CSA FARM SCHOOL – Operated for 5 months including summer break
The CSA Farm School will continue to be operated by CRMPI and instructors will be hired to operate the program and manage the CSA with the students. Outside instructors, who have CSA operational experience, may be contracted to teach and the students will visit larger farms to learn larger scale farming techniques. The CSA Farm School will operate on tuition, CSA membership proceeds, donations and grants. We see the need for 1 full time Instuctor/Manager initially and depending on class size, a second staff member may be required. Class size will be capped at 20 students to guarantee a quality instruction for all students.
• CSA Farm School Instructor / Manager – this position will require some prior CSA knowledge and experience. This person will make lesson plans based on curriculum written for this program and work directly with students in hands-on application of the course materials. This person will be in charge of handling CSA tuition and membership monies and budgeting expenses for operating costs. 5 Days per week (flexible) 5 months per year with some possible overlap time
CRMPI Project Team – Initial phases:
Jerome Osentowski
Infrastructure development, Consulting, staff recruitment, training staff
Brian Blount
Infrastructure development, research & writing (grants, curriculum), graphic design for printed materials and websites, labor
Illene Pevec
Program advisor, Grant writing, volunteer coordinator, curriculum building
Recruited volunteer labor and hired contractors:
Many tasks will require volunteer labor and some will require the hiring or in-kind donation of experienced tradesmen:
Irrigation, Greenhouse construction, Fence building , Security system, Electrical, Excavation for greenhouse, Concrete?, Compost bins
Compensation for CRMPI team:
Community support for this project will be crucial to its long-term success. CRMPI will provide the technical support for the project based on the experience of Jerome and his staff of gardening and CSA operation in this climate zone.
Actual time is hard to estimate until the project gets started, so this pay scale is to help structure a preliminary budget. We are basing the initial project time at 30 hours per week, but actual time may greatly exceed that. CRMPI will be assigning students from the Permaculture design courses individual components of the school design to help cut design and consulting fees. We will find volunteer labor and licensed professional who are willing to donate their time as in-kind donations whenever possible.
Jerome Osentowski:
Consulting: $100 per hour ($50 billed, $50 in-kind donation)Includes design and layout work for greenhouse and gardens during the design and construction phases
Oversight/Management: $35 per hourGeneral project management time where Jerome is on site or doing project related work (hiring employees, reading proposals, etc.)
Teaching/Training: $75 per hour ($50 billed, $25 in-kind donation)Time for training employees, teaching classes
Initial retainer fee:
Brian Blount:
Graphic Design: $35 per hour ($25 billed, $10 in-kind donation)Includes design for printed materials, advertising and website design
Grant / Curriculum - Research & Writing: $40 per hour ($20 billed. $20 in-kind donation)Research for available Grants for both projects, grant writing and compiling curriculum
General Time: $15 per hour Construction, labor
Preliminary Management Structure
This purpose of this document is to outline CRMPI’s role in construction, infrastructure and consulting for the school projects. The Roaring Fork High school project has been approved by the school board and will begin infrastructure and greenhouse building over the summer of 2009. Division of labor and job assignments is where our focus lies right now so that we may begin this project in an orderly and timely fashion. We welcome input and feedback from all the other involved parties in this process.
CRMPI’s Role: CRMPI is a 501(c)3 that will umbrella the school projects and provide staff and support to develop and oversee Edible Schoolyard and CSA Farm school projects. Students for the CSA Farm school will be recruited through CRMPI’s website and advertising as well as through postings on other sites such as ATTRA.gov.
EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD – Operated during the 9 month regular school year
The Edible Schoolyard project will be managed and maintained by hired staff members once the construction of the greenhouse and gardens and infrastructure are complete. There will be 2 part to full time positions required for this purpose.
• An Edible schoolyard coordinator – will work with teachers from RFHS and visiting schools to schedule class times and activities. This person will be in charge of the educational component of the Edible Schoolyard and will act as a liaison between the school and CRMPI. 9 months per year
• A Garden Manager – a person with gardening abilities and training to coordinate all the growing related tasks of the garden and greenhouse. This person will be in charge of planting and harvesting schedules, greenhouse and irrigation maintenance and composting. An experienced gardener is needed for this scale of a project. The gardener may be called upon at times to give advice or help with student planting projects. 9 or 12 months TBD
CSA FARM SCHOOL – Operated for 5 months including summer break
The CSA Farm School will continue to be operated by CRMPI and instructors will be hired to operate the program and manage the CSA with the students. Outside instructors, who have CSA operational experience, may be contracted to teach and the students will visit larger farms to learn larger scale farming techniques. The CSA Farm School will operate on tuition, CSA membership proceeds, donations and grants. We see the need for 1 full time Instuctor/Manager initially and depending on class size, a second staff member may be required. Class size will be capped at 20 students to guarantee a quality instruction for all students.
• CSA Farm School Instructor / Manager – this position will require some prior CSA knowledge and experience. This person will make lesson plans based on curriculum written for this program and work directly with students in hands-on application of the course materials. This person will be in charge of handling CSA tuition and membership monies and budgeting expenses for operating costs. 5 Days per week (flexible) 5 months per year with some possible overlap time
CRMPI Project Team – Initial phases:
Jerome Osentowski
Infrastructure development, Consulting, staff recruitment, training staff
Brian Blount
Infrastructure development, research & writing (grants, curriculum), graphic design for printed materials and websites, labor
Illene Pevec
Program advisor, Grant writing, volunteer coordinator, curriculum building
Recruited volunteer labor and hired contractors:
Many tasks will require volunteer labor and some will require the hiring or in-kind donation of experienced tradesmen:
Irrigation, Greenhouse construction, Fence building , Security system, Electrical, Excavation for greenhouse, Concrete?, Compost bins
Compensation for CRMPI team:
Community support for this project will be crucial to its long-term success. CRMPI will provide the technical support for the project based on the experience of Jerome and his staff of gardening and CSA operation in this climate zone.
Actual time is hard to estimate until the project gets started, so this pay scale is to help structure a preliminary budget. We are basing the initial project time at 30 hours per week, but actual time may greatly exceed that. CRMPI will be assigning students from the Permaculture design courses individual components of the school design to help cut design and consulting fees. We will find volunteer labor and licensed professional who are willing to donate their time as in-kind donations whenever possible.
Jerome Osentowski:
Consulting: $100 per hour ($50 billed, $50 in-kind donation)Includes design and layout work for greenhouse and gardens during the design and construction phases
Oversight/Management: $35 per hourGeneral project management time where Jerome is on site or doing project related work (hiring employees, reading proposals, etc.)
Teaching/Training: $75 per hour ($50 billed, $25 in-kind donation)Time for training employees, teaching classes
Initial retainer fee:
Brian Blount:
Graphic Design: $35 per hour ($25 billed, $10 in-kind donation)Includes design for printed materials, advertising and website design
Grant / Curriculum - Research & Writing: $40 per hour ($20 billed. $20 in-kind donation)Research for available Grants for both projects, grant writing and compiling curriculum
General Time: $15 per hour Construction, labor
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Launch the RFHS Greenhouse! - Conference call Tues. May 26, 9am
AGENDA:
News:
Cleveland Foundation donation received, in the name of Mrs. Anne M. Jones of Chagrin Falls, OH, for $5,000. Toward the Roaring Fork High School Project.
5 Point Film Festival bake sale - $2,000. expected, plus a generous donation from the festival itself, still being determined. Major Kudos from the festival organizers and the public, on the quality, quantity and consistency of the baked goods our network of friends produced and delivered!
RE-1 School Board gave us unanimous approval to proceed with the RFHS Garden and Greenhouse Project. Now we must raise the funding to build it all, this Summer. (see below)
RFHS Greenhouse & Garden Project:
Project Goal: $85,000. to build a 42-foot dia. Growing Dome, and a 1.5-acre fenced Garden.
The most important thing we have to discuss is the long list of grant applications we must make, with lots of help from Jerome and his interns, and the fun part, gathering the community of Carbondale for one or more fundraising events this Summer, to get all the money we need to build both greenhouse and garden at the high school, before September. Jerome says the money is out there and available, and it's time to harvest it.
I propose we plan a large dinner at the Rec Center, with food from all the restaurants. The Roaring Fork HAMS Homebrewers Club is willing to brew beer for a community dinner fundraiser this Summer, a half-dozen taps of homebrewed beer in as many flavors.
DONORS: Imagine yourself at the start of the school year, at the ribbon-cutting ceremony, with the honor of reading the list of donors who helped make it happen. This is the list of people we will be asking, and none of them wants to be missed when we read that list, and when it's published in the newspapers. - C.O.R.E. / Sopris Foundation / Fat City Farms donors / Sustainable Settings Ranch / Neislank Ranch / Turnbull Ranch / River Ranch HOA / Aspen Glen HOA / Churches / Carbondale Businesses / Carbondale Town Council / Carbondale Citizens /
GRANTS: Jerome and Brian have a long list of Grants that are perfect for this project, with application deadlines, and are working on them. We can work with CRMPI enormously by donating money to hire them some help, or by diving in and helping with the research, writing, printing, mailing and followup.
Summary:
The one big thing we can do to help raise money is to mobilize the community of Carbondale, and to help organize them. How can we get the word out? What do we say when someone asks, "What can I do to help?" Let's create that list, and keep it here on the blog, and expand it into our website, into the Volunteer and the Donate tabs. We should have plenty of harnesses hitched to this wagon!
Carbondale is a community where when there's a parade, no one is watching, because everyone is marching. Let's harness that energy and kick it into high gear!
Food & Cooking Classes:
It may be time to kick this idea into second gear: A marriage of Local Food Growers, Local Chefs, Realtors with fancy kitchens (and houses) for sale, and some wonderful real-time and time-lapse Video Production, for Grassroots TV and our own website. Fat City Farms is evolving into the "Community Yeast" that will mobilize Carbondale, then Aspen and Basalt, to support these school greenhouse projects. What better to be known for than connecting the dots, bringing the community together, over local food, its preparation and preservation? Each of us can help move this along by talking with Realtors and Growers about it, lining up the kitchens, the gardens, the chefs and the video-meisters, setting some dates and recording Class #1.
See you all at 9:00 am Tuesday, May 26.
News:
Cleveland Foundation donation received, in the name of Mrs. Anne M. Jones of Chagrin Falls, OH, for $5,000. Toward the Roaring Fork High School Project.
5 Point Film Festival bake sale - $2,000. expected, plus a generous donation from the festival itself, still being determined. Major Kudos from the festival organizers and the public, on the quality, quantity and consistency of the baked goods our network of friends produced and delivered!
RE-1 School Board gave us unanimous approval to proceed with the RFHS Garden and Greenhouse Project. Now we must raise the funding to build it all, this Summer. (see below)
RFHS Greenhouse & Garden Project:
Project Goal: $85,000. to build a 42-foot dia. Growing Dome, and a 1.5-acre fenced Garden.
The most important thing we have to discuss is the long list of grant applications we must make, with lots of help from Jerome and his interns, and the fun part, gathering the community of Carbondale for one or more fundraising events this Summer, to get all the money we need to build both greenhouse and garden at the high school, before September. Jerome says the money is out there and available, and it's time to harvest it.
I propose we plan a large dinner at the Rec Center, with food from all the restaurants. The Roaring Fork HAMS Homebrewers Club is willing to brew beer for a community dinner fundraiser this Summer, a half-dozen taps of homebrewed beer in as many flavors.
DONORS: Imagine yourself at the start of the school year, at the ribbon-cutting ceremony, with the honor of reading the list of donors who helped make it happen. This is the list of people we will be asking, and none of them wants to be missed when we read that list, and when it's published in the newspapers. - C.O.R.E. / Sopris Foundation / Fat City Farms donors / Sustainable Settings Ranch / Neislank Ranch / Turnbull Ranch / River Ranch HOA / Aspen Glen HOA / Churches / Carbondale Businesses / Carbondale Town Council / Carbondale Citizens /
GRANTS: Jerome and Brian have a long list of Grants that are perfect for this project, with application deadlines, and are working on them. We can work with CRMPI enormously by donating money to hire them some help, or by diving in and helping with the research, writing, printing, mailing and followup.
Summary:
The one big thing we can do to help raise money is to mobilize the community of Carbondale, and to help organize them. How can we get the word out? What do we say when someone asks, "What can I do to help?" Let's create that list, and keep it here on the blog, and expand it into our website, into the Volunteer and the Donate tabs. We should have plenty of harnesses hitched to this wagon!
Carbondale is a community where when there's a parade, no one is watching, because everyone is marching. Let's harness that energy and kick it into high gear!
Food & Cooking Classes:
It may be time to kick this idea into second gear: A marriage of Local Food Growers, Local Chefs, Realtors with fancy kitchens (and houses) for sale, and some wonderful real-time and time-lapse Video Production, for Grassroots TV and our own website. Fat City Farms is evolving into the "Community Yeast" that will mobilize Carbondale, then Aspen and Basalt, to support these school greenhouse projects. What better to be known for than connecting the dots, bringing the community together, over local food, its preparation and preservation? Each of us can help move this along by talking with Realtors and Growers about it, lining up the kitchens, the gardens, the chefs and the video-meisters, setting some dates and recording Class #1.
See you all at 9:00 am Tuesday, May 26.
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