Everyone please review and post comments at the bottom. We are embarking on a Fat City Farms website overhaul, to accurately describe our mission, especially with respect to CRMPI and other groups in the valley.
Mission: the reality is that CRMPI is responsible for running the CSA Farm School, and FCF is raising the funds necessary to run the school. Likewise, this translates into the mission to build Greenhouses and Gardens at local schools - CRMPI and Eco Systems Design will plan, design and help to build them, while Fat City Farms will be the community glue that brings all the resources together, networking to raise funds and volunteers. Does that make sense? Does anyone have other elements of the FCF mission to suggest? For now, I propose to expand our mission statement, something like: "Growing Community and Farmers for a Healthy Local Food Economy"
The "buttons" on our home page would be in the following two rows:
home - contact - links - donate
projects - curriculum - volunteer
Home: as it is currently, with an altered mission statement;
Contact: list email as: info@fatcityfarms.org and have AJ forward emails from there to MT
Links: CRMPI, CORE, Basalt Thrift, Common Sense, Ecosystems Design, Aspen Homegrown, Yampah Greenhouse blog, RFHS Greenhouse blog, Pitkin County Greenhouses blog, Heritage Fruit Trees blog,
Donate: what does it take to set up a PayPal account that allows people to donate money to FCF, with good records for who, when, how much, so we can generate a thank you letter?
Projects: A list of Projects, and links to them:
CSA Farm School - Danny's video of 2008 summer classes, CRMPI Phoenix reconstruction, etc;
Heritage Fruit Tree Project, with link to our HFT-Blog http://heritagefruittrees.blogspot.com/
Yampah Mtn HS Greenhouse, with link to Blog http://yampahgreenhouse.blogspot.com/
Roaring Fork HS Gardens, with link to Blog: http://rfhs-greenhouse.blogspot.com/
Pitkin County Greenhouses, with link to Blog: http://pitkingreenhouses.blogspot.com/
Curriculum: Google Calendar, covered with classes being offered by CRMPI, CSA Farm School, CMC, Sustainable Settings, Fresh & Wyld, Common Sense Re-Generation, anyone else teaching toward our mission - one thing we are missing is a Cooking and food preservation school, which is a community-building opportunity no one is addressing yet? FCF could take this on as a signature, using it to create all kinds of community celebrations!
Volunteer: this could become volunteer-central for many things, starting this summer with the RFHS Greenhouse construction. We can expand the influence of this Volunteer Bulletin Board to include community garden projects, tree-pruning parties, school garden and greenhouse planting parties, harvest parties, etc.
That's all for now!
MT
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I think the new suggestions on format would simplify and better organize the website, I like and agree with them all. I still think we need an "about us" catagory to explain who we are and what we're trying to do to anyone first going on to the site.
ReplyDeleteWith regard to the mission statement, what is clear to me is that we continue to grow, evolve and change. And this will probably be the case in the future as well. We need to make sure that our mission statement allows us to do that, and I think it does.
Great work once again Michael, thank you for your efforts.
David
Finally got in....!
ReplyDeleteBravo Michael!
Already spoken with you regarding hte policy changing aspects in the Valley and the cooking/preserving prospects. I'll be in touch regarding the baking goodies pick-up.....
susan