Email: hopifoodcoop@gmail.com
Launched in March 2013 as a
grassroots, volunteer effort, we who are involved choose to make healthier
changes with our food choices and support one another in this effort.
Mission
- · Support continued production of our Hopi food sources (including dry farming, hunting, ranching, orchards, gardens, and Neeveplawu-collecting native, wild greens)
- · Find non-local sources that are fresh, seasonal, organic, and organize bulk purchasing for one another.
- · Share and learn from each other about food knowledge and methods: such as canning, gardening, butchering, and Hopi values associated with food
- · Implement recycling and reusing initiatives that reduce waste within our households.
- · Offer shared responsibility of organizational leadership and management
How Do We Do This?
- · We meet bi-weekly from 6-8 pm and always include a pot-luck meal.
- · Members volunteer to host meetings at their home or other large space. We respectfully request hosts to use real dishes at every meal and we all help clean up as part of meeting.
- · Members volunteer to take turns to facilitate meetings, take notes and host.
- · Members connect via a private Facebook page. All our meeting notes, links, and messages are shared there. A member volunteers to contact those members who do not Facebook, by phone.
- · Membership is informal. You just have to commit and assist in some way.
Meeting Agenda
·
LOCAL AND
ORGANIC FOODS
- Announce
any opportunity to barter, trade or sell any local foods (conduct sales at the
end of the meeting)
- Discuss
Azure Standard monthly order; organize bulk purchase
·
EDUCATIONAL
SESSIONS
-Discuss or
organize any learning opportunities; such as gardening workshop, neeveni
picking, film screening, etc.
·
LOCAL MEATS
-Share any
local meat opportunities; local beef, local sheep for sale, etc.
-Organize
group purchase of an animal, schedule butchering party
·
ANNOUNCEMENTS
-Make any
other relevant announcements, i.e. conferences, trainings, etc.
·
ORGANIZATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
-Discuss
any issues related to the organization
·
NEXT MEETING
-Set date for
next meeting; select host, notetaker and facilitator
