[Announce] Nebraska Food Cooperative opens for business!

[Robert Waldrop]

Please pass this news along to anyone you know or 
have contacts with who lives in Nebraska.

The Nebraska Food Cooperative is open for business 
and is conducting its first monthly order-delivery 
cycle of locally produced Nebraska foods during 
the month of July.  Below is the announcement they 
are sending around.

The NFC is modelled after the Oklahoma Food 
Cooperative, and is using the Oklahoma Food 
Cooperative's Local Food Cooperative Management 
System computer software, which we are making 
available free of charge to other such 
cooperatives via the General Public License system 
(that means that nobody can copyright the system).

Bob Waldrop, Romero CW House, Oklahoma City

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IT'S HERE . . . LET'S CELEBRATE!


THE NEBRASKA FOOD COOP'S FIRST DELIVERY DAY!


MARK YOUR CALENDARS . . .




Tuesday, July 17: "Order Window" OPENS


Sunday, July 23, 10 pm central: "Order Window" 
CLOSES


Thursday, July 27: Delivery Day




We invite all members to


1. shop the Web site: 
http://www.nebraskafood.org/shop


2. look over the producers' offerings,


3. try out the order process, and


4. give us lots of feedback on ways to make it 
even better for next month!




We anticipate several more producers will add 
their information during the week of July 17, so 
check back more than once. Remember, however: no 
orders can be processed after the cut-off time, 
Sunday, July 23, 10 pm central. (This cut-off time 
will give producers time to get invoices and 
orders ready for the delivery date.)




Pick-up Site for Lincoln area orders-


Shadowbrook Farm
2201 West Denton Road
Lincoln, NE 68523


(402) 421-2383


Between 1 pm and 7 pm




Pick-up Site for Omaha area orders-


This site is being finalized now, or a volunteer 
may actually be able to deliver it to you directly 
this first time. We will keep you informed, but we 
invite you to check in any time at (402) 372-5005.




Delivery availability outside the Lincoln/Omaha 
areas-


Call us at (402) 372-5005, and we will let you 
know if we have producers or volunteers from your 
area who will be able to transport products back 
to your area.




Background and details


After over a year of volunteers working together 
on planning, meeting, conference calling, and 
meeting some more, we have finally reached the 
point to "try our wings" and celebrate LOCAL FOOD!


We're still at beginner stage, with a small number 
of producers in the database at this point, but we 
want to try a "soft opening," so that all of us 
beginning members can see, on a smaller scale, 
what kinks and problems crop up, as we go through 
the paces together.


Once the first order cycle is under our belts, we 
anticipate adding lots more producers, which will 
translate into lots more products to choose from.




If you haven't yet sent in your membership fee, 
now is the time to do so, as only members are able 
to place orders!




We're excited! We hope you are too! This is the 
very beginning- the ground floor of something that 
we think will GROW, and grow quickly.  It will 
take effort and patience on everyone's part to 
help the Cooperative grow and succeed, but we 
Nebraskans are up to the challenge!


In anticipation of good things to come,


Randy Wattermann, Board Chair
Shannon Moncure, Membership Chair
Nebraska Food Cooperative
PO Box 94691
Lincoln, NE 68509-4691
(402) 372-5005