EAT GOOD FOOD
Facilitator: Andrew Reiff
http://eatgoodfood.posterous.com/
Purpose:
1, To create access to updated information on what foods are fresh from the fields and in the farmer's markets locally and what their prices are.,
2. To introduce the local farmers markets, local farms and farmers to the locals.
3. To inform about food, food issues, health and sustainability.
Ideas about Technology:
The APP would need to be written for the I-apples, android, goog, etc. plus for a desktop, too. I suppose it would show where the local markets are, what's available there that is ripest, the cost, which farms the produce comes from and expand to the informational video and other media that it should share with the site.
The SITE would be the app with lots of Video from food experts, farmers and markets.
Project media outreach people would contact the experts, farmers and marketeers and help them create and learn to create micro video pieces with cell phone vid or camcorders for the site. The videos ranging from how tasty a certain ripe veg is, to how the farm works, to how long the season is, all that kinda stuff.
They could update the produce data directly, post the vid directly, too ( an app for that-or through a project outreach person, who would also teach how to use the app).
Project media people would produce media, liaison with and grow community farmer and marketeer contacts, collect and present information to the public. That's the proposal and how it stands so far.
The blog for the project is EatGoodFood.posterous.com .
Here are the six goals I've publicly identified of the EAT Good Food Project:
1. Provide information directly from local farmer’s and farmer’s markets on what food is available from the latest harvest, how much it costs and where it is available .
2. Have this information available in an easy to digest form on the web and, in your pocket, through a mobile app. We will offer that app for free to anybody who has use for it, including the good food organizations, community groups, educators, and you.
3. Profile and support the local farmer and farmer market community.
3. Provide food, health, farming and gardening information through video, links, and articles.
4. Facilitate, support and initiate food outreach programs to food banks and other food assistance programs.
5. Respond with assistance to the ideas and concerns of the community about food, health, food policy and food programs.
6. Be an open source depository and distributor of data collected in support to anyone who wants to promote the free exchange of information and ideas.
Hear Andrew Reiff be interviewed by Mera Szendro Bok on the EAT Good Food Project:
Drumbeat San Diego: The EAT Good Food San Diego project from Andrew D. Reiff on Vimeo.
