Thursday, April 22, 2010

Anyone interested in writing a business plan?

If you're interested in getting experience in writing a business plan and a green one, please check out this opportunity:

The Urban Farm Coalition would like to write a business plan regarding the urban farm they have established at the 12th and Brandywine Community Garden in Wilmington. To date they have established two 48 foot and twelve 16 foot production beds. They are growing an assortment of vegetables and berries. All of the produce is to be sold on-site at a farm stand.

The goal of this undertaking is to supply the local community (a very underserved population, mostly minority) with fresh produce. They are not out to make a profit, or even break even necessarily, though perhaps part of the plan would be to consider how they could at least break even. They would like to write a 3- to 5-year business plan for the farm and farm stand. The goal is twofold - 1) to establish this urban farm as a model for future urban farms in and outside of Delaware and 2) to seek grants for DCH to establish other urban farms. They would like to have the plan written in the next few months.

This is the information I received so far. If you want more details please let me know and I'll get you in touch with my contact there.

Raz

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