EBT CSA

I was reading about Seattle's plan to make a food forest and it gave me an idea for an inner city non-profit CSA that takes food stamps.

There are some 10-15 of community gardens in Lansing, and I think that there might be folks who garden there that might contribute, too.

I'm pre'damn sure we could get workers from community corrections, too.

Hmm.

What would be the first steps for this project?

1) write it up -- the dreaded business plan

2) talk to the city about getting a space

3) talk to the community gardening groups to see if there's interest there

4) talk to neighborhood centers to see if there's interest there

5) talk to city planners and see what land might be available - there's a lot of vacant, city owned land right now in the Lansing area, but a lot of it is ex-manufacturing space with poor or contaminated soil.

Some folks outside of Seattle have done this: Crystine Goldberg and Brian Campbell at Uprising Farm are featured in this Local Harvest newsletter.

Suggestions anyone?