Frank Introduction

[Frank Moreland]

Hi Everyone

Thanks Gary for setting up this web discussion and inviting me—I will
introduce myself and say what I am interested in helping with. Thanks
also to the person that made a video of the Oct 15 meeting and posted
it to the Internet—I have some questions about the meeting this group
may like to discuss in a second post.

I am Frank Moreland, and my partner in life and business and leisure
is Sandra Mark. I read a lot, and I write a lot. Together we have
operated Edible Strategies Ent Ltd for over 10 years, and we have had
over 20 clients with a variety of activities and outcomes. We have not
had any new information posted on the website in the last year, but
you can see our history at www.ediblestrategies.com If anyone is
interested in our CV you can let me know and I will hook you up.

We have made a decision to SEMI-retire to the Grand Forks area and
have been looking at potential “turn key” food processing
infrastructure to purchase and the luck of the draw has Brian Thate as
our real estate representative. We found early on that there is no
turn key food processing infrastructure here like there is on the
coast…HOWEVER there is some infrastructure that could be renovated and
I have hired a local General Contractor to do a physical inspection
and renovation report on one property. Sandra and I are looking for
personal property to buy and hope to move to Grand Forks in the
spring.

I am interested in participating in this discussion because I have a
few potential customers for a value added haskap fruit product, and
another of my clients designs food processing infrastructure. My
biggest questions are: “Are you planning to follow Haskap Central
Sask’s business plan to sell fresh product to Japan? Or are you
planning to do an independent market analysis for BC and Canadian
customers demanding a value added food product?”

If the later, and if you are planning a food value chain, I can be the
processing link in the chain and provide market analysis and sales. I
would focus on this part and co-operate with the other links in a food
value chain.

A full Grand Forks (Boundary/Kootenay of what ever bio-regional
definition) local food value chain with preservation and value adding
is a big vision venture that can be demonstrated to the rest of BC and
Canada, and we can, as Gary says in the video, “Get ‘er done!”