Next Owego Local Foods Store Meeting

[Rebecca Heller-Steinberg]

Hi Everyone,

It sounds like the last meeting to discuss the potential for a local foods store in Owego was small but productive. It was recommended that we consider the Schoharie Fresh model (www.schohariefresh.com) as a possibility. See the email below from Matt for more info on what was discussed at the meeting.

The next meeting was proposed for Thursday, May 24 at 4pm here at CCE/Tioga County Office Building (56 Main St, Owego). However, that is a very busy day in this building, so there is not a meeting space available at that time. I am also not available that day. So the options are to stick with that meeting date and time and find another location, or try to find another date that works for people when there is meeting space available here.

Let me know what you all think.

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Rebecca Heller-Steinberg
Gardening and Local Foods Associate
Cornell University Cooperative Extension
56 Main St.
Owego NY 13827
(607) 687-4020


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Date: Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:09 PM
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Hello all,

Marvin, Carl and I met yesterday to discuss the Local Food store concept. This was my first meeting with the group. I recommend the Schoharie Fresh model as a starter for the project. www.schohariefresh.com

The concept was developed between SUNY Cobleskill and Coop Ext. I think it is a low-risk, high-flexibilty marketing channel that would leave room for lots of growth and expansion.  Please review the site and get familiar with the concept. The basic idea is: Farmers post to a website what products & quantities they have available by a certain weekly deadline, let's say, Tuesday at 6:00 PM.  Then customers have about 48 hours or so to place orders. So, all orders are placed by Thursday at 9:00 PM (for example), farmers pack the orders and bring them down to the store front for a pre-arranged pick-up time slot, let's say Fridays from 2:00 to 6:00 or something like that. There are lots of other details to explain, but that is the basic idea.

If enough people are interested we thought we would bring the developer of the site and maybe a participating farmer to Owego to give a presentation sometime in June.

Matt LeRoux
Ag. Marketing Specialist
Cornell Cooperative Extension- Tompkins County
607-272-2292

[Andrew G Fagan]

Rebecca - I too am not available that day.

 

Andy

 

Andrew G. Fagan

Executive Director

 

CCE Chemung and CCE Tioga

Chemung 607-734-4453

Tioga 607-687-4020

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Subject: Next Owego Local Foods Store Meeting

[Christine Wilson]

Just curious whether or not the meeting has been changed.  It sounds like few people will not be able to make it so I wondered if there will be a new date and place.

Christine

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Subject: RE: Next Owego Local Foods Store Meeting
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 14:48:27 +0000

[Rebecca Heller-Steinberg]

Hi everyone,

We will not be meeting tomorrow, as a meeting room was not available. If we are looking at afternoon meeting times, there is a meeting room available Monday, June 4 or Wednesday, June 6 at 3 or 4pm. Do either of those dates work for people?

Rebecca

[Christine Wilson]

Either of those days would be good with me. 
Thanks,
Christine

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[Kevin and Lisa Engelbert]

Monday is impossible for me and Wednesday is iffy.    If it ends up being Wednesday, I’ll try to be there.

 

Thanks.  Have a nice weekend everyone!

 

Lisa

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[Rebecca Heller-Steinberg]

Hi everyone,

I've reserved the Legislative Conference Room at 56 Main St in Owego for a meeting next Wednesday, June 6 at 3pm. Does someone who was at the last meeting want to put together an agenda?

[Marvin Moyer]

Hi,

 

The last meeting we explored the Schoharie Fresh program with Matt and the two who were there liked the program.  This next meeting we need to look at this program and hash it over and see if this would work in Owego.  What changes should we make and if we like it see if Matt can invite SUNY Cobleskiull to come and talk about it and explain the software. If you recieved Matts notes of the meeting you had a link to Schoharia Fresh. Review it (if you have time) and see what you think. I like it. I think we need to begin with this; it was the last thing on the table.

 

Marvin

 

 

[Christine Wilson]

I plan to attend the next meeting along with Laura and Paul Sage.  Laura and Paul have been running the website OweGoGreen.com for the past three years.  The website's goal is to help bring the consumer closer to our local farmers in Tioga County.  Currently, we have most of the support of the local farmers in Tioga County.  We recently saw the idea about Scholarie Fresh and thought they had a wonderful concept.  We would like to use our website as an online Farmer's Market for our local farmers to sell their products.  We would post each farmers products they wish to sell on our website and have the consumers go to our website to place their orders.  

 
We look forward to discussing these ideas with you.
Thanks,
Christine
 

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