5×5 Night at Start Garden
Voting Closes:
October 21, 2024 11:59 pm
Impact
South East Market's impact is most significant for the businesses we support and all of our customers in 49507 and beyond. We are a vessel to providing healthy, local food to our community which strengthens our people and our food system at large. Strengthening our local food system and encouraging people to grow and eat whole foods is one of the best tools for climate resiliency and wellness.
What I'll do with $5,000
This will kickstart our prepared food operation which will allow us to reduce food waste and turn local food into delicious healthy meals and snacks that people can eat on the go. Many of our customers are looking for the convenience of prepared food without all of the health consequences. $5,000 will provide us with the capital to get our initial cooking equipment, kitchen rent, cooler/fridge rent and provide us with some capital to onboard staff with food safety training and create protocol and recipes for our prepared foods. This value add will have significant implications for our sales as any time we have healthy, prepared food it sells quickly.