A Message from the Cultivate team:
Cultivate is about new ways of feeding Oxford. We are a co-operative social enterprise that will bring fresh, local, organically-grown food direct from farmers to the city and surrounding areas. Our five-acre market garden and other small farms nearby will provide the produce sold in the VegVan, our mobile greengrocery, which will set up wherever communities want it.
We are offering individuals and organisations the opportunity to become a real part of the enterprise by investing. For three months only from 16th January to 16th April we will be running a community share offer to raise the £55,000 we need to make Cultivate happen. Every investor will automatically become a member of the co-operative and have a vote in how it is run. Cultivate is people-powered: owned, run and financed by the community!
We look forward to seeing you there.
MONDAY 16 JANUARY 2012, 7PM
At the Turl Street Kitchen, Oxford ( MAP )
Other Upcoming Events
We've got a packed couple of months ahead! If you can't make it to the launch, we'll be speaking at:
6 January: Oxford Real Farming Conference
25 January: Oxford University School of Geography and the Environment
26 January: The Sustainable Supper
And a future date for the diary... join us on March 31 for our first farm open day when we need loads of volunteers to install our fence!
Sign up to our mailing list here if you haven't already. And if you have... thank you! You can also keep up to date with us on Twitter, via our new guest blog at the Campaign for Real Farming, and on our website.
That's all for now. In our first email of 2012 we'll fill you in on the responses to the Cultivate survey, but until then please keep sending us your ideas. Season's Greetings and a Happy New Year from all of us!
Dan, Joe, Emma, Doireann and Julian
Cultivate