Bath Food Bank will receive the Bath Natural Market's Freight Shed Event!

Support for our Kickstarter campaign came from four continents and over 20 US States with more that 237 people participating but it was Louanne and Mark Schoninger, owners of the Bath Natural Market, who pushed the Freight Shed Kickstarter campaign over the top! For their pledge reward they are receiving an event at the Freight Shed with a concert by the Arrowsics and a Local Foods Dinner. The best part is that they have now given it to the Bath Area Food Bank to use as a fundraiser!! Please read more about their super generous act in the :Bangor Daily News!
and the Coastal Journal.

Thank YOU for helping us exceed our Kickstarter Goal!

Home Grown + Kickstarter Countdown

HOMEGROWN.org

"HOMEGROWN.org is a gathering place for folks who celebrate the “culture” in agriculture and share skills like growing, cooking and food preservation. It's a place where we can learn from each other, share our questions, and show off how we are living HOMEGROWN."

Thanks Kickstarter and HOMEGROWN for featuring our project! JOIN US on Saturday as we celebrate the Freight Shed - come see what it's all about, plant some seeds, create art, celebrate our maritime heritage and delight in the great food from our local food growers and producers!

Please go to this link http://kck.st/zXkFK4 and pledge and we'll be finished Saturday MIDNIGHT ! The support has been coming from all over! We are so grateful!! Oh yes one there will be one last pledge reward..A SUMMER SUPPLY OF EGGS!

Today the City of Bath is submitting a grant application to the State for facade improvements for several important buildings in Bath including our Freight Shed!

Remember: OPEN HOUSE SATURDAY NOON UNTIL 2PM.

Kickstart for a Latin American Lunch at the Freight Shed!

New Reward! Pledge $19 for 1 person, $36 for 2 and $70 for 4.

please go to: KICKSTARTER

Latin American Lunch at the Freight Shed! Relax and enjoy lunch with Latin flavor and music on a Sunday afternoon. To be scheduled in June or July. This meal will take place on a Sunday from 12 to 4 at the Freight Shed. Feast on dishes such as Ajiaco, a traditional Colombianpotato/chicken chowder; Ensalada roja, a beet/carrot/hard-boiled eggsalad; and Mexican style rice and beans. Beverages will include freshly roasted Colombian coffee. Led by Colombians Claudia Sortwell and Janette Tarpley, these chefs will use local ingredients from the Bath Farmers Market where possible. Your meal will be accompanied by Latin music. Join other members of the Freight Shed community as we relax and enjoy a traditional Latin American Lunch!

THE IMPORTANCE OF RE-USE

Last week in Bath The Maine Development Foundation's Downtown Institute held a conference on Green Design and Historic Preservation. Many compelling environmental arguments were made for saving the Freight Shed and creating a place for local farmers and food producers to connect with more people in the heart of our downtown is just one way this project is responding to community needs.

Please join the 126 people who have already backed this effort by going to: KICKSTARTER to pledge! 13 days left to go to raise $9,515 ($8,485 pledged to date)

Public meeting at Bath City Hall Thurs. March 22nd at Noon.

http://www.preservationnation.org/information-center/sustainable-communities/sustainability/green-lab/valuing-building-reuse.html

Reuse Matters. Building reuse typically offers greater environmental savings than demolition and new construction. It can take between 10 to 80 years for a new energy efficient building to overcome, through efficient operations, the climate change impacts created by its construction. The study finds that the majority of building types in different climates will take between 20-30 years to compensate for the initial carbon impacts from construction.

Update

One week into our KICKSTARTER we are thrilled at the response.. 65 people have pledged already! It is heartwarming to see that folks want to support our kind of grass root effort to make a healthier community where students have a major role bringing this historic structure back to life.. creating their farmers' market a food hub, that will also be a place for boat building programs and the arts!

We are very grateful for the generous pledges $3,251.00 so far (18% of the goal) and for the new connections - great ideas, offers of a bicycle rack and local boat tours!

4 weeks left to go - together we can succeed! Thank you for helping to get the word out and for your support!

Ready set GO!!

Our kickstarter is launched..

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/208904568/power-to-the-freight-shed-building-a-winter-farmer

The more participation we have at the start the more attention we will get! This equals more light fixtures, insulation and programming at the Freight Shed. It is all or nothing we have to reach our goal - which is $18,000 by March 31st or receive $0. We can exceed our goal though and we certainly need more than $18,000 for the renovation.
Kickstarter has been covered in all major media - it is a way that people can participate in supporting, causes, design, new films, music - you name it and now the Freight Shed Renovation Effort is a part of it!

We need your help spreading the word and as pledgers! Even a dollar pledge will make you a part of it! Check out all the wonderful ways this community is pitching in - whether you are in São Paulo, Amsterdam or Cairns... If you think that people have the power to make change and that local food hubs can be the place to bring a community together--- prove it by supporting us for even one dollar -- or show up most any day and there will be things to do!

Kickstarter works with pledge rewards. They are a unique way that our friends can make in-kind donations to the Freight Shed. So you will find many wonderful things from a pre- release of the Arrowsic's new CD, a custom design, locally sourced tee shirt by Evan Farley, Bath Farmers' Market veggies and products, stays at both the Kismet Inn and Spa and the Inn at Bath. Do you have friends or relatives coming to visit Maine this summer? Would you rather have them stay in town instead of under your roof? Send them our link…2 people, 2 nights B+B, massage, dinner at Solo Bistro plus bicycle rentals - height of the summer… plus tee shirts and a CD.. Do the math, add a feel good factor.. they are helping create a local food hub and a place for educational programing and more…$1,840 there are only 4 available so act fast!

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Let's see how far we can go!!!