Re: Saturday Market Day at TFMN Warehouse might be my last.

[Guest guest]

Hi Alvin,

For what it's worth, I have not known that the Warehouse has been back in

business, and I'm guessing MANY of the members also do not know. I'm sure most

of us do not follow this list...in fact, I'm sure many are not even members of

this list.

I used to get emails from the warehouse about events, but I haven't gotten any

communications since it died and then, apparently, came back to life.

If it's at all possible, you may want to try some communications to the member

list ASAP to let people know that you'll be open tomorrow.

As for me, I will do my best to try to make it in tomorrow.

Kroyer

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> No misprint. I am considering a new location for our connection to

multiples of metro families that are tired of waiting for this TFMN entity to

come back to life. I've been working on access to all variety of healthy food

since June and can see noticeable progress on our route, but our support at the

TFMN on Saturdays has been dismal at best. I met with the owner again this week

and now have a firm commitment from Steve that we will again have access to 1/2

the parking lot that is part of our lease. We have a plan to recover the

operations of the TFMN Warehouse and relieve Warren of the liability of being

open without the consent of the city or doa. It's called a private food club and

is in essence what we've always planned to be. It will certainly be cold again

tomorrow and I will be at the warehouse before my 10 am market schedule. If you

can find another ounce of strength to promote this idea of local food access,

please stop in. We have a good supply of our fresh eggs and other food options

since we deliver every week (some awesome citrus left and a new order in

progress). We'll take orders for 100% grass-fed ground beef at $3.95 per lb in

10 lb lots! We're ready to plan a fun mid-Feb party that I call our Winter

Squash and Lucky Pig Festival - if we can justify the effort. It's time to stop

talking about " what if " and start doing. Market schedule is 10 am to 2 pm at

least. We plan to attend the Slow Cheese (google Slow Food MN) event later in

the day. Thanks for your patience, Alvin - www.schlangenfamilyfarm.com

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[Guest guest]

Sorry, I just realized I misread the date and was a week late to the party.

Kroyer

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> > No misprint. I am considering a new location for our connection to

multiples of metro families that are tired of waiting for this TFMN entity to

come back to life. I've been working on access to all variety of healthy food

since June and can see noticeable progress on our route, but our support at the

TFMN on Saturdays has been dismal at best. I met with the owner again this week

and now have a firm commitment from Steve that we will again have access to 1/2

the parking lot that is part of our lease. We have a plan to recover the

operations of the TFMN Warehouse and relieve Warren of the liability of being

open without the consent of the city or doa. It's called a private food club and

is in essence what we've always planned to be. It will certainly be cold again

tomorrow and I will be at the warehouse before my 10 am market schedule. If you

can find another ounce of strength to promote this idea of local food access,

please stop in. We have a good supply of our fresh eggs and other food options

since we deliver every week (some awesome citrus left and a new order in

progress). We'll take orders for 100% grass-fed ground beef at $3.95 per lb in

10 lb lots! We're ready to plan a fun mid-Feb party that I call our Winter

Squash and Lucky Pig Festival - if we can justify the effort. It's time to stop

talking about " what if " and start doing. Market schedule is 10 am to 2 pm at

least. We plan to attend the Slow Cheese (google Slow Food MN) event later in

the day. Thanks for your patience, Alvin - www.schlangenfamilyfarm.com

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[Guest guest]

I don't think you're alone, , I feel in the dark about what's going on at

the warehouse as well. The info that Warren shared with this group, re the

situation with the State, was also new to me. So many of us want to be able to

shop there again!! I feel even worse about my friends who I encouraged to

support it and who bought lifetime memberships!

[Guest guest]

The main issue here is that our food access had been rudely interrupted by our

mda and something needed to be done immediately. In July, I put together a

private food club to serve the purpose of maintaining access to local healthy

food. We serve 100 some families, many of which were introduced to the TFMN

Warehouse idea by me. We really had something special with the positive energy

of many unique individuals and the willingness to share info was awesome. We

hope to have that again soon as we rebuild from the wreckage. I will be at the

TFMN Warehouse location for the scheduled market dates of 2/12 and 2/26. If you

want details about my plans for the future of your memberships and access to

local healthy food, send an email to me at foodfreedom@.... The Raw Milk

Fundraiser was an amazing display of collective effort and showed a real sense

of purpose. The International Raw Milk Symposium and potential for new

legislation should make us all proud of our efforts. If you're hungry for a real

update of real food, I can help. Alvin

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don't think you're alone, , I feel in the dark

[Guest guest]

Yeah, we bought a membership literally like the week it was shut down. I love

supporting local farmers and all, but I haven't received any information from

the warehouse at all... if I was not on this list I'm not sure I would have even

known about it shutting down. And I don't check this list regularly enough. I

just hope when it does open up that we get a membership extension or something

(we bought a year and have shopped there once). It really IS too bad that it

shut down, but we are a very poor family who does whatever we can do get REAL

food despite our tight budget and often have to go without in other areas in

order to eat the way we do. So it was tough to swallow that money spent.

[Guest guest]

So, what I'm trying to do is connect with the membership of the original TFMN

Warehouse - to pinch hit for an entity that seems to be handcuffed at this time.

We've been connecting families to local farms for more than five years in the

Twin Cities. We won't be stopped by harassment. Check our earlier posts and

PLEASE, pass on our contact info for this project. It is foodfreedom@....

Stand up and demand your right of access to fresh, local food and farms! Be

well, Alvin

Yeah,

we bought a membership literally like the week it was shut down.