Re: Meal Cleaners—any good solutions for getting 'em? | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: S. Kashdan (s_kashdan![]() |
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Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 07:02:34 -0700 (PDT) |
At Jackson Place Cohousing in Seattle, Washington, we usually have four meals during the week and one meal (breakfast or dinner) on the weekend. Volunteering for the meals program is separate from other chores people do to help maintain the community. It is a spearate program that people can choose to participate in or not, as they feel appropriate. At any one time, about one-third of residents are very active in the meals program, about one-third are moderately active, and about one-third are only involved sporatically. How people are involved changes over time. We have a meals team that asks cooks and cleaners to commit to either cooking or cleaning a month in advance. We have two cooks and two cleaners for each meal. We also have one or more shoppers for the meals program. The people who volunteer to cook on a specific day choose the menue and let the meals team shoppers know so there will be the correct kind and amount of food for that meal when it is scheduled. The meals schedule, with menues and cooks and cleaners is printed in a book so people can sign up for the meals they want to participate in. The cleaners set up for the meal, the cooks prepare the food, and the cleaners clean up afterwards. If the two volunteer cleaners and two cooks have not committed for a specific meal, that meal will be canceled. This doesn't happen often, although sometimes people trade cleaning or cooking days, and menues may be moved along with the cooks committing to a new day. Our meals program has been going for ten years and seems to work well, with ongoing fine-tuning. Cohousingly, Sylvie Sylvie Kashdan Community Outreach Liaison Jackson Place Cohousing 800 Hiawatha Place South Seattle, WA 98144 www.seattlecohousing.org --- On Sat, 6/23/12, Martha Wagner <wordbizpdx [at] gmail.com> wrote: From: Martha Wagner <wordbizpdx [at] gmail.com> Subject: [C-L]_ Meal Cleaners—any good solutions for getting 'em? To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org Date: Saturday, June 23, 2012, 10:57 PM Our food team would like to know how other communities have successfully dealt with a scarcity of after-dinner cleaners. Our kitchen does get cleaned, but often it's the same people who step up to clean when others don't sign up or cancel after signing up. Our community does not use established cooking or cleaning teams, and anyone can sign up for meals whether or not they cook or clean though we request that everyone put in one meal-related hour per month. Both cooks and cleaners do get participation hours and all adults pay for the meals they eat. We have two regular dinners most weeks. Suggestions anyone? Martha Wagner Columbia Ecovillage Portland, OR _________________________________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/ _________________________________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/
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Re: Meal Cleaners—any good solutions for getting 'em? S. Kashdan, June 24 2012
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