Meeting Potential Clients

Last class we meet with four different potential clients. Small world bakery a bakery that is dedicated to showing the link between local food production involving wheat, honey, and milk,creating products from local farmers and providing the process to make bread and granola which they sell to markets.

Fresh Water farms that talked to us about there ambitions of educating people mainly children to farming.Fresh Water Farms operates from a greenhouse; growing various green vegetation and has plans of building an educational experience catering to schools to teach about agriculture. They came to us to see our opinion of the matter and how they may integrate a class room like set up to there greenhouse.

Mud Creek Farm talked to use about community supported agriculture (CSA) and how they conducted business. Basically they would sell shares of crop to customers prior to there seasons. This was a pretty awesome business model because they basically received payment for all the crops they grow and don't have to worry about finding buyers for crops before they go bad.

The last organization that came to speak was the Good Food Collective who talked to us about how there business is trying to help small farmers connect with the Rochester community. The good food collective worked in a pretty unique way. The company was a CSA like multiform CSA the company worked with 8-10 with local farmers, the farmers create a share of food that is split within the community. This company is really striving to have Rochester consumers of fruits and vegetables to buy from Rochester farmers. Placing money back into the local economy.

All of the presenters were striving to obtain the same goal. To increase the consumptions of local produce. One note that I found interesting from the day were the opinions these companies had about farmers markets. When asked about farmers markets each company stated that they were were not good places to generate revenue.