[SustainableTompkins] Community Food Preservation Center (RECAP OF INFO)

[Ryan Hottle]

Dear Sustainable Tompkins:
A lot of information has come through in the last few days regarding the
establishment of a Community Food Preservation Center.  I have assimilated
the following information that many folks have written about on the list
serve on the topic.  If anyone is interested in having a small, informal
meeting within the next couple weeks, let's discuss.

Thanks,
Ryan D. Hottle

*Community Food Preservation Center

*LEAD CONTACTS:
(Folks who have expressed interest thus far or who have been recommended)

*Katie Quinn-Jacobs*: <kqj at quinn-jacobs.org> PreparedTompkins.org, IthaCan

*Elan Shapiro*: <elansla at ecovillage.ithaca.ny.us> Sustainable Tompkins
Community Partnership Coordinator

*Duncan L Hilchey*:  <dlh3 at cornell.edu> Senior Extension Associate Community
and Rural Development Institute at Cornell University

*Robert Morache*: <robmorache at gmail.com>  Energy, Transport, Food Visionary

*Ryan Hottle*: <ry.hottle at gmail.com> Building Energy Analyst, Peak Oil
Activist

*Jeff Furman*: <no email available yet> (Recommended resource by Tony Del
Plato)

*Bob Rossi*: <no email available yet> (Recommended by

*Sandra Repp*: <sjr37 at cornell.edu> Cornell Extension Office

*Carole Fisher*: <crf11 at cornell.edu> Community Educator at CCE-Tompkins



EXAMPLES:

Food Processors conference in Poughkeepsie at the Hudson Valley Food Works

Victory Gardens (http://www.earthlypursuits.com/WarGarV/WarGard15.htm)

ISSUES:

* Multiple food processing: canning, dehydrating, fermenting,

     freezing, etc

   * Tie-in with job training programs

   * Living wage

   * Green building

   * Green technologies: preserving techniques & equipment

   * Use seasonal surplus from local farmers

   * Processors are member-owners, not renters

   * Contract pre-season with local farmers

   * Share resources (equipment, advertising) with off-site local

     preservers

   * Certification: USDA, NYS DOH, Organic, Kosher

   * Possible Locations:  East Hill Plaza, Downtown, South Hill, near IFM



ORGANIZATIONS:

IthaCan Network

TCLocal

Cornell Ag Extension Agency

Sustainable Tompkins

PreparedTompkins.org



NEXT STEPS:

Set up meeting through Sustainable Tompkins and TCLocal

Start discussions with experts in field

Study Example Projects



RESOURCES:

http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/dec2007/sb20071214_603976.htm

http://www.healthguidance.org/entry/7280/1/Resurgence-of-Community-Canneries.html

http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Nature-Community/1977-07-01/Home-Canning-Away-From-Home.aspx

http://www.earthlypursuits.com/WarGarV/WarGard15.htm

-- 
Ryan Darrell Hottle,
Climate Change Solutions Thinker

Performance Systems Contracting,
Building Performance Analyst

Global Climate Solutions
www.GlobalClimateSolutions.org
(coming soon!)

Ohio Peak Oil Action (OPOA)
Co-Founder, Director
www.ohiopeakoilaction.org

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Ithaca, New York 14850

(740) 258 8450