Community Kitchen & Incubator Project

Information

As part of the Sustainability Summit 2019, this group has committed to working on planning, designing, locating funding and space for community kitchens.

Members: 30
Latest Activity: Dec 14

Goals

This is just a brief introduction of our goals. The plan consists of two separate elements, community and business.

1) Community:
a.) enable local community gardeners to have a space where they can work on food preservation
b.) provide educational opportunities -- food safety, sanitation, canning, preserving
c) provide activities that build community - ie.; exchanges, dinners etc.
d) promote health and wellness

2) Business
a) provide an incubator space where entrepreneurs can begin to bring their products to market
b) provide start up business services

This is from memory, so it is not complete, but a generalization of our planning.

Conversations

Welcome! Ready to roll up your sleeves?

Started by Diane Aug 26.

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Comment by Leslie S on December 14, 2009 at 4:40pm: Hi folks --- just wanted to join and let you know that I am available to share info and resources through your ning site on establishing a community-based local food facility.

Comment by maurice small on November 2, 2009 at 12:39am: when is the first group canning session? when is saul not going to have to travel from cleveland to toledo to do his processing? when do we create "cleveland konbucha"? ace-net from athens ohio was in youngstown two weeks ago and i happened to stop in and give it a listen. youngstown is all in for the ytown incubator project. lets go cleveland lets go!

Comment by Sudhir Kade Raghupathy on October 17, 2009 at 11:35am: I just thought I'd share, in this moment, a piece I wrote about the fermentation fair held earlier this year, where I met the talented and brilliant Sandor Katz - aka Sandorkraut. What a great advisor he'd be (he's my FB friend) to our value-added products work in the area of fermentation, specifically. All of these processes could be refined to create so many healthful value-added items naturally and organically - Cleveland Mead, Cleveland Kombucha - etc. Great potential.

Comment by Sudhir Kade Raghupathy on October 5, 2009 at 2:58pm: I look forward to meeting those of you from this great group I haven't yet and meeting the great folks I met at Gypsy Bean at last meeting, again! There is a great opportunity to do great design work here that is truly collaborative and truly inclusive of all our community stakeholders. I look forward to sharing a meaningful mapping model to ensure maximum buy-in and synergy across our civic space. See you all soon!

Comment by Renata on October 5, 2009 at 1:22pm: I am very interested in this type of project. I don't know if I'll be available for any of the meetings for the next couple of months, but I'd like to stay "in the know". And if I can come, I certainly will.
I have a ton of ideas and I'm glad to see there is a group now that is wanting to do something like this.

Comment by Matt Russell on September 29, 2009 at 1:40pm: When is the next meeting?

Comment by Gwen Forte on September 8, 2009 at 8:27pm: Thursday, 7pm at Petit Triangle on Fulton (44113)

Comment by Doris Honsa on September 8, 2009 at 6:23pm: sounds like the first meeting is this week - when and where?

Comment by Diane on September 8, 2009 at 11:27am: While taking a few minutes to do a bit of resource digging I found this and wanted to share the link:

http://afsic.nal.usda.gov/nal_display/index.php?info_center=2&tax_level=2&tax_subject=301&level3_id=0&level4_id=0&level5_id=0&topic_id=1447&&placement_default=0

Comment by Matt Russell on September 4, 2009 at 4:20pm: Check out this grant opportunity. I'll bring more information next week.

http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/coops/vadg.htm