Be the only boarding school that has 100% local/organic food.
The description:
We have the land and most of the farming equipment but not the processing, cooking or storage facilities. It is in keeping with old school tradition where we grew all our own food. There is some existing staff knowledge. The target group would be organic farm organizations, health food stores and magazines. This could also fit with a Quaker emphasis as eating simple local food is consistent with acting out our conscience.
1.Improve fiscal plant to efficiently utilize as much as possible food grown on our ground: Build vegetable processing kitchen room, freezers and cool rooms, a vegetable washing storage facility to process food that comes from farm, make bake room more efficient, build small scale creamery
2.Buy/refurbish appropriate farm equipment pneumatic seeder, new/refurbished potato digger, new/refurbished combine other farm equipment as needed
3.Hire nutritionist to build diets for students with food allergies, have vegetable cook
4.Change schedule to allow for daily student farm work.
5.Have farm internship program and more full time farmers/teachers.
6.Have summer farm camp, hold conferences targeted to middle school children/families
7.Seek farm easement and buy all 325 acres from Ohio Yearly Meeting.
8.Become organically certified
9.Host field studies for OEFFA and PASA (become active members in both organizations)
10.Build a sugar shack and as a matter of conscious eat/make locally grown sustainable non-slave workers sweeteners: maple syrup, sorghum molasses, apple butter and honey.
1.Improve fiscal plant to efficiently utilize as much as possible food grown on our ground: Build vegetable processing kitchen room, freezers and cool rooms, a vegetable washing storage facility to process food that comes from farm, make bake room more efficient, build small scale creamery
2.Buy/refurbish appropriate farm equipment pneumatic seeder, new/refurbished potato digger, new/refurbished combine other farm equipment as needed
3.Hire nutritionist to build diets for students with food allergies, have vegetable cook
4.Change schedule to allow for daily student farm work.
5.Have farm internship program and more full time farmers/teachers.
6.Have summer farm camp, hold conferences targeted to middle school children/families
7.Seek farm easement and buy all 325 acres from Ohio Yearly Meeting.
8.Become organically certified
9.Host field studies for OEFFA and PASA (become active members in both organizations)
10.Build a sugar shack and as a matter of conscious eat/make locally grown sustainable non-slave workers sweeteners: maple syrup, sorghum molasses, apple butter and honey.
author: Sandy Sterrett