Edgewater, Maryland is a community
rich in natural resources.

The last of our local farmland is threatened by development, while we import increasing amounts of food at a huge environmental cost.

Restoration Foods will sell seasonal produce and other farm based and local goods to help restore the community’s connection to the land, while using a portion of profits to help increase the number of local school and community gardens.

• Combine the convenience of a grocery store
  with the freshness of a Community Supported Agriculture subscription.
• Increase percentage of revenue to farmers in a grocery store setting.
• Reduce distance and other waste between
  farm & fork.
• Create a revenue stream for local school and community gardens.
• Promote the rapid increase in locally available foods.

10 Reasons to Buy
Local Food

1. Locally grown food tastes better.
2. Local produce is better
   for you.
3. Local food preserves genetic diversity.
4. Local food is GMO-free.
5. Local food supports local
   farm families.
6. Local food builds community.
7. Local food preserves open space.
8. Local food keeps your taxes
   in check.
9. Local food supports a clean environment and benefits wildlife.
10. Local food is about the
    future.

Sign up for a season like a CSA, and receive a debit card
that can be used for any products or events in store.

Jobs will be created immediately for administration of the store, then procurement, sales and education as needed.

The store’s kitchen will be made available to sustainable food entrepreneurs on days the store is closed.  This will help increase the diversity of the store’s offerings, while helping community members realize the dream of a food based business without the expense of building a commercial kitchen.

What Natural means at Restoration Foods

• Vegetables and fruit grown using organic, or stricter, standards.
  
  
• Meat and dairy raised on pasture, without antibiotics, hormones or GMO feeds. Also raised humanely, without passing through a feedlot or other stressful confinement.
  
  
• Imports fair trade, from producer owned cooperatives, using chemical free methods that support environmental and community restoration.
  
  
• Seafood wild and sustainable caught, dye and GMO free. Seafood ecologically farm raised will be considered.
  
  
• Waste reduced with bulk selections and purchase opportunities, compostable or reusable packaging, and limited days open.
  
  
• Plastic avoided wherever possible.

Limited Availability

Founder’s Club
Founders will have 5% added to each
debit card.

• $150/yr for 3 years
  pay $450, receive 3 debit cards, $158 ea.
• $500/yr for 3 years
  pay $1500, receive 3 debit cards, $525 ea.
• $1000/yr for 3 years
  pay $3000, receive 3 debit cards, $1050 ea.
  

Regular 6 Month Memberships
Early February 2012- June 30 2012

• $600, paid in full
• $630, three payments of $210
  

At the end of each season (or year if you are a founding member) unused funds can be rolled over into a following season.

If you are able, we hope you will consider joining us and donating unused funds to help local non-profit Grow Annapolis increase local school and community gardens.

Resources

Ivy Brand Farm

Grow Annapolis

Rocky Mountain Institute

Bioneers

Who we are:

Sara Colhoun is a local organic farmer that realized that small family farms alone will not be enough to restore our local food system.  Combining many years of market farming experience with several years of Food Systems research, this store has been designed to meet the needs of the Edgewater community while supporting a rapid increase in locally available foods. The founder's local four season farm, Ivy Brand, will supply the store in the winter. Other local and regional organic farms will be used for supply the rest of the growing season.

We will be raising money to help Grow Annapolis increase the number of school and community gardens. Pleases see their website for examples of their important work in the Annapolis, Maryland area.

This business is inspired by the idea that sustainable business methods will not provide the bold step we need at this point. We must use commerce as a tool to reverse ecological damage by focusing purchases on items that use environmentally restorative methods. To learn more about Restorative business, please visit the Rocky Mountain Institute webpage, as well as the Bioneers website.