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Category Archives: Resources
“Man in the Maze”
With the lowest number of community gathering places of all first world nations, it’s time for the USA to transform space into place. This talk will describe a grand but doable community-level strategy that is already underway across the American grid.
San Luis Obispo County Hunger Free Communities Plan
The overall objective of the hunger assessment research is to identify the extent and causes of hunger in San Luis Obispo County, including assessing household food security, determining accessibility of food resources, identifying low availability and high cost food areas, assessing community food production resources, and identifying other barriers to food security.
http://www.slofoodbank.org/uploads/Hunger%20Free%20Communities%20Plan%20Background.pdf
Local Food With a Big Twist: Oregon Super-Cooperative Takes Aim at the Corporate Food System
By Mary Hansen & Liz Pleasant
Read the original article in Yes! Magazine, 2/15/15
“Badass Democracy”
With the lowest number of community gathering places of all first world nations, it’s time for the USA to transform space into place. This talk will describe a grand but doable community-level strategy that is already underway across the American grid.
farmstart
Regional Food Hub Resource Guide
Farmigo
Food Hub Financial Benchmarching Study
The Cost of Producing a Dozen Eggs
Most commercial egg operations (organic or non-organic) reside in permanent buildings, allowing for mechanization. Feed and water are automatically provided and eggs may be mechanically collected. Our mobile coops do not lend well to these efficiencies. We pay for the mobility of our flocks with greater labor costs incurred by hauling feed to our birds, collecting eggs by hand, opening the coop in the morning , and closing the coop at night for protection from predators. In return, the hens have access to fresh pasture. Whereas the yard around a permanently located coop would turn to a mudyard devoid of nutrition, our mobile coops allow us to move our flocks onto new ground alive with grass, clover, and bugs. We believe this creates healthier birds that produce more nutritious eggs.
Total production costs: $7.94/dozen
Marketing cost: $3.09/dozen ($0.28 of every dollar spent at our farmers market booths goes toward market fees, sales labor, transportation to market, and other marketing expenses)
Total cost of production and marketing: $11.03/dozen
Price for a dozen of our eggs: $8.00/dozen