Here are the questions I posed to you and the context for them:
The arena we play in is local foods systems mostly in Ohio's northeast extending to Pittsburgh.
The vehicle or means of engaging is seeking and capturing stories about individual entrepreneurs, collaborative efforts, blighted communities, and local schools.
Our guiding questions as we understand them at this point are:
The NY Times for Friday, 19 June 2009 included an article entitled For Colleges, Small Cuts Add Up to Big Savings by Tamar Lewin. The College of Wooster and Oberlin College were mentioned for their cost-cutting measures such as summer jobs for students in landscaping and vegetable gardening along with reductions in food services as noted in the following quote from the article:
It may not fit the traditional definition, but there is some very exciting economic development happening in Lake County this summer that is of special interest to folks who love local food. This week, the first fruits of the Hispanic Growers Project will arrive at farmers’ markets in Painesville, Lake Farm Park, and Mentor as a result of a wide collaboration and the hard work of five Lake County families.
Ross, the other interns and I spent some time brainstorming our ideas for the stories we want to tell.We’re aiming for about ten in the next seven and a half weeks.Please give us some feedback about which ideas you think are best, which stories you think people need to hear, etc.These are our ideas so far:
On
an average-looking street next to a park in the West End of Pittsburgh,
a red door stands. This would not ordinarily be a source of interest,
but this door is not surrounded by walls, nor does it lead into a house.
It is merely a frame and a front door standing alone, and it leads not
into a comfortable living room, but into a small member-owner farm.
