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"

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.

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!

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.

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.