Goals for the Week of 2/23

This week, Blake and I have set up a meeting with the District Office of Planning, Laine Cidlowski. The meeting was originally scheduled for last Tuesday, but was cancelled as a result of the snowstorm. At the meeting, we expect to have a number of key questions for Laine. In addition, we hope to finalize the scope of the project that meets the needs of both Blake’s class and this class. The meeting will be held on 2/24 at the Office of Planning. After this meeting, Blake and I will then meet later on in the week for a debriefing of the meeting, and to finalize how the scope of the project will meet the requirements for both classes. Moreover, we plan to have identified case study cities that we will use as comparisons for the potential model of the District’s Food Hub. Should our work plan need to be updated, we will do so accordingly.

In terms of what most excites me about the project, I am excited about interviewing the operators of our case study food hubs. I think it is a necessary step for our project. They will have first-hand knowledge of what works and what doesn’t.  In this way, we may receive information that might be missed by solely focusing our research on written articles. In addition, successes and challenges may have changed since the articles we identify have been written. In interviewing an operator of a food hub, we will get the first hand knowledge this project needs. The thing that worries me the most is the unpredictability of the weather. I do not think as team we can afford to have another meeting cancelled. Going forwards, we should have a backup plan should one of our weeks be altered due to weather events.