ORGANIC FARM STORE

ORGANIC FARM STORE - Local Organic Whole Food Products

* High tech, super service (think Trader Joe's-ish) store with a rustic-mountain theme
* Selling micro-niche market organic and hard to get items.
* Super great location necessary. Needs to have competitve pricing.
* Needs experienced General Mgr.
* Emphasize and Advertises the High Tech Farm and its benefits to the community

Phase 1: Large Home Garden on Separate Lot

Community Services Provided

1. Food Products:

a. Local Delivery of "Same Day Fresh" Organic Food Products
     Stage 1: Produce
     Stage 2: Other organic products (Jams, Jellies, Eggs, high quality bottled water)
     Stage 3: Dairy, Meat and Eggs for about the same price you'd pay at the grocery
      store.
  
b. You pick it - Come pick your own

2. We pick up recycle your:
     * Used cooking oil  - we pay you
     * Food wastes -
     * Yard debris (grass clippings, leaves, tree limbs) -
          - Lawn service?

3. The Party Wagon (for festivals and events):
     * A Mobile Store with Kitchen for serving fresh poboys


    

   
    

Strategic Plan

I. Land

A. Acquisition:

     1. Selection Criteria & Method

  2. Purchase plan

     3. Funding & Capital Reserves

B. Development:
     1. Site Planning & Development Permits
     2. Site Preparation:
          a. Clearing
          b. Leveling & Drainage lines
          c. Water & Sewer lines
          d. Electricity & Gas lines
          e. Access & Roads

C. Management:
     1. Regulatory Compliance & Permits
         a. property taxes
     2. Infrastructure Maintenance
        a. Roads

II. Operation Systems

A. Production

     1. Soil Systems

          a. Worm farm

          b. Composted manure

          c. Mulching 

     2. Aqua culture

     3. Plants

          a. Greenhouse plants

          b. Field plants

          c. Lumber trees

          d. Feed plants

     4. Poultry 

B. Support Systems

     1. Power systems

          a. Solar

          b. wind

          c. Self-produced natural gas (methane)?

          d. 

     2. Water systems

          a. Non-potable
               1. rainwater collection
               2. aquaculture pond
 

          b. potable 

     3. Buildings
         
          Front End Building:
          . Farm Store
          . Farm Office
         
          Soil Production Building:
          .worm farm, worm castings storage, composted manure storage,

          Plant Production Building:
          . Feed & Seed Storage
          . Canning, Bottling, Packaging Building
         
          Meat Production Building:
          . Poultry Processing building: slaughtering, plucking, cleaning, packing,
            Refrigerated Storage building
          . Fish Processing Building:
          .
          .
 

     4. Security 

          a. Fencing

          

III. Human Resources

     1. Staff

     2. Students