Eight weeks away

The new adventure in food and hunger has taken cities across this great nation by storm.  More than ever, cities are addressing issues of health, food insecurity, and sustainability by challenging and supporting the work of everyday citizens to make a difference.

We hope to be a part of that change in Dayton.

The problem is simple: access to fresh food effects everyone.

The solution is simple: provide access to fresh food.

This issue is more than about poverty or having limited mobility.  It is about good food, fresh food and building bridges to great connect our neighbors in the Greater Dayton area.

We are just under eight weeks away to launch and we would love your help. We have two goals: to raise the $10,000 to retrofit a bus and to get a bus donated. Your help in either and both realms is greatly appreciated.

Let’s do something in Dayton that will have an impact on us all.  If you eat, you’re in.

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#Shopsmall Saturday

This coming Saturday is a great day to support local. Local businesses, local farmers, local initiatives. Here is a link to our local project.  Give and share with wild abandon.

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What the inside of our fresh food mobile market may look like.

https://www.generosity.com/community-fundraising/fresh-food-mobile-market/x/12362863

We are raising $10,000 of public funds to 1) pay to retrofit the bit (see budget figures below, 2) show that the Greater Miami Valley is interested in this adventure, 3) to qualify for funding from corporate sources that required public funds to be secure.

Budget to retrofit the bus is $15,000 (see below).  Our goal is to raise 2/3 of that from people just like you. Thank you .

BUDGET (this budget does not include supplies, cold storage, food, engine work, structural work, wifi capacity for transactions, etc.)

Electrical work          $2,500

Paint job (int/ext)     $3,500

Custom Metal work  $6,400

Expandable Awning  $2,600

 

 

 

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On our way…

There is a three year plan, but the first and most important part of the plan is the today, the this-month, the this- year- part of the plan.  That part of the plan is: get on the bus.

Across the Gem City people are hungry, in general and specifically, for fresh food. I don’t know about you, but I am also hungry to save a bit of cash, to support local farmers, and have more fun.  What better way to do that than to have a fresh food mobile market? How you ask? Well, it’s simple.

Imagine a trolley, a little cute trolley with fresh food, let’s call it the Gem City Food Trolley. It shows up in your neighborhood with fresh food and provisions from local and regional farmers, growers and producers. (Cute!) You buy bits and pieces for the week. (Easy!)  No more buying 20 avocados because they’re on sale for $1 only to throw 18 of them away. (Saving moolah? YES!) Honestly, it will be that simple.

This fantastical fantasy, the Gem City Food Trolley could be wonderful! And it will be wonderful, with you. We’re raising $10,000 to retrofit a trolley that will be the cat’s pajamas. From there we stock the trolley with fresh foods and products from local and regional producers. Next and finally we hit the road: St. Anne’s Hill to Trotwood, Wright Dunbar to Walnut Hills, University Row to the University of Dayton.

Here is how you pitch in. Give to our Generosity (a division of Indiegogo) project via the link or via the QR code. Plug in to our Facebook page for daily fun and let’s do something great.  Dayton is one of the top ten cities in the US for hunger. This project gives a new voice in dealing with hunger.  Across this great country of our, there are trolleys and bus and vans and trucks all bringing food to the people and making a wide footprint as they stamp out hunger.  The Gem City Food Trolley can do that in Dayton.  Will you help?

https://www.generosity.com/fundraisers/food-trolley-it-s-an-ice-cream-truck-for-fruits

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