Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Do we need a community freezer?

[Rick Gravrok (rick.gravrok]

Here at Monterey Cohousing in Minnesota we bought two commercial-style
freezers (they keep the temp at -10 degrees), one was used by households
who paid for their share of the cost based on cubic inches. That has
been quite successful and popular.
The other is for community foods for meals, but it got loaded up with
things that weren't getting used, partly because of COVID, but also because
we weren't using things up, a bunch got freezer burned. Now while some
space is still for community foods, some shelves will soon be owned by
households.
A bit o' food humor: Why did the person get a job at the bakery?
Because they needed the dough. Rick
Rick Gravrok
St. Louis Park, MN
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952-926-6655 (landline)


On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 8:16 AM Sharon Villines via Cohousing-L <
cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:

>
> > On Oct 6, 2022, at 8:00 AM, Karolyn/Richard Mangeot <
> richard.mangeot [at] usa.net> wrote:
> >
> > Re: Do we need a community freezer?
> >
> > At Elderberry, since most of us (18 homes) have downsized and don't have
> > stand-alone freezers, we have two freezers in the Common House that are
> > largely used for people's personal overflow food storage (garden
> produce, bulk
> > purchases), but also ingredients for community meals and emergency meals
> we
> > make for neighbors (both in and outside Elderberry).
>
> How do you manage them — ensuring that food is stored for proper amounts
> of time, nothing is left abandoned, etc. Things don’t last forever in
> freezers.
>
> Eleanor Ostrom was once being interviewed on shared commons and what was
> necessary to make it work. She was asked how they manage the refrigerator
> in her office. She said everyone who uses the refrigerator cleans it in a
> set rotation. The list of names is on the wall by the refrigerator with the
> dates. Anyone who uses the refrigerator can see who was responsible last
> week and didn’t clean.
>
> Sharon
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> Sharon Villines
> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
> http://www.takomavillage.org
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