Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Cohousing-L digest, Vol 1 #187 - 5 msgs

[Diane or Douglas (ddhle]

In response to your specific questions:
1)  We have two food buyers that do all of the purchasing, pickup and shelf 
stocking. They buy from multiple places but two of the souces are wholesale 
outlets.
2)  The buyers stock the food once it arrives but all members who cook take 
part in managing it as well as our food committee. It is everyone's 
repsonbility to write down when an item is out or low on a sheet posted in 
the pantry. The food committee reviews the overall operation of the program 
every so often. In addition it is each Lead cook's reponsibility to write 
down a list of ingredients they need at least 1 week prior to the meal they 
are preparing. Then the buyers can plan for their shopping.
3)  We charge each adult member $80 per month and each child $5 per month 
per year of age.  This money purchases all our community food used for 
community meals as well as all food for our household pantry which members 
are free to take from for their individual homes. We have 26 adults and 12 
children in the community.
4)  No extra charges for our pantry. See question 3 above.

Doug Larson,
Songaia cohousing
Bothell, Washington


| Hi,
| What a sumptuous pantry!  How do you manage it?  Who does the shopping
| and replenishing of items, and how is it paid for?  Is there a pantry
| charge added to the cost of the meals?
|
| Thanks,
| Patty Mara Gourley
| Tierra Nueva, Central CA Coast
| Where I am finally keyboarding my notes from the conference for our next
| Community Life day on Saturday morning.  I will post them on the list
| soon.
|
|



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